PHALERISTICS - VATICAN diploma of CHEVALIER COMMANDEUR of th - Lot 676

PHALERISTICS - VATICAN diploma of CHEVALIER COMMANDEUR of the ORDER of SAINT GREGOIRE to Sieur Jacques Edouard COLAS de LA NOUE. "LEON XIII, Pope, Dear Son, greetings and apostolic blessing. We have according to the testimony / of the bishop of Angers / merited / worthy to receive / CC of the order of Saint Gregory the Great / civil class and admit you into this illustrious body / Consequently we give you the right to put on the special costume / and to wear the insignia / octagonal Cross of GOLD of great module of red color, presenting in the center the effigy of Saint Gregory which one suspends to the neck by a red silk ribbon bordered of a yellow edging etc..."..." Given in Rome near St. Peter's on the 10th day of MARCH 1891. Signed: Cardinal Ledochowski. VELIN PARCHEMINE 27.5 x 42 cm with PAPAL SEAL and stamp of the Grande Chancellerie de la Légion d'Honneur authorizing wearing in France under no. 16 680. * Colas de la Noue: Author-writer of JEANNE D'ARC et le SIEGE D'ORLEANS, Herluison éditeurs en 1896 - various correspondence on the subject of Joan of Arc is enclosed, in particular an autograph letter from the Reverend HERTZOG, superior of the French seminary and procurator of the cause of Joan of Arc;