Rosa Mystica

Rosa Mystica is an 18-karat yellow gold christening medal depicting the Virgin Mary in profile, surrounded by a wreath of foliage and her engraved Latin title: Mystic Rose.

A Virgin Mary crowned with foliage

Mary is seen in profile, turned to the right, a veil resting on her hair and falling to her shoulder; a fine-line halo encircles her head. Her dress, with its embroidered collar, folds at the neckline. Around the portrait, our sculptor engraved a wreath of leaves running around the whole rim of the medal, and the inscription ROSA MYSTICA on either side of the face. Mystic Rose is one of the titles the Litany of Loreto gives to Mary: the rose without thorns, image of her purity. The wreath takes up this garden theme; it also gives the medal the frame of an antique medallion.

A christening medal struck in the traditional way in 18-karat gold

Like all our gold medals, Rosa Mystica is made by stamping: the 750/1000 gold blank is struck under an engraved die, which gives the foliage and lettering their crispness and the face its relief, then given a satin finish. The gold weight is 2.30 g in 16 mm and 2.90 g in 18 mm. Made in France, in our workshop.

Diameter, engraving and variations

The 16 mm is the christening size; the 18 mm, the classic size. The smooth reverse takes an engraving, first name and date, carried out in the workshop with the engraving package. Rosa Mystica is available in gold and mother-of-pearl, in solid silver and in silver and mother-of-pearl, to be worn on an 18-karat yellow gold trace chain.