Gold Rose

The Rose of gold is an ornament blessed by the Pape, intended to honor with the sovereigns or the catholic sanctuaries. As its name indicates it, it represents a pink , a pink bunch or a small rose tree in massive Or.

History

The gold pink appears at the beginning of the Moyen-âge. The first attested mention is a bubble of 1049, in which Leon IX exempts the convent of Holy-Cross of Woffenheim (Alsace) provided that the abbess annually sends a gold pink to the the Holy See. The chronicle of Saint Martin's day of Tours mentions the oldest known gift of a gold pink by the pope: gift of Urbain II with the count Foulque IV of Anjou, in 1096. As of the low Middle Ages, the gift of a gold pink to honor a sovereign supplants the gift of the keys of Pierre, legatee at the 8th century.

The pink is traditionally carried in procession, of the church Holy-Cross of Jerusalem to the palate of Lateran, at the time of the Sunday of '' Lætare '' (fourth Sunday of Lent), also called Sunday of the Rose for this reason. It is initially carried by the pope himself. Thereafter, when the weight of the pink increases, a clerk is in charge of this task. It is on this occasion that the pope blesses, in the sacristy of Holy-Cross, the balsam and the musk intended for the pink, before this one is not carried by a legate with his recipient, or is given to an ambassador resident. In 1895, the responsibility of carry the gold pink is entrusted to a secret Camérier of cape and sword.

At the time contemporary, Jean-Paul II gave of the gold pinks to many sanctuaries dedicated to the Virgin Mary, like that of Lourdes in France, of Aparecida to the Brésil or of Guadalupe to the Mexico. In the year the 2006 pope Benoît XVI gave the Or Rose to the Sanctuary of Jasna Góra (Poland).

The last gold pink up to now was given to the basilica of Aparecida, with the Brésil, by Benoît XVI in 2007.

the Basilica Saint-Pierre of Rome (5 pinks);
the Midsummer's Day Basilica of Lateran (4 pinks);
Foulque IV '' Réchin '', count d' Anjou (1096);
Alphonse VII of Castille (1148);
Louis VII of France (1163);
Raimond Berenger IV, last count de Provence of the House of Barcelona (1244).
Louis I {{er}} of Hungary (1348);
Ranuce Farnèse (1434);
the emperor Sigismond (1435);
Henri VI of England (1444);
Casimir IV of Poland (1448);
Charles VII of France (1457);
Isabelle the Catholic (1493);
Emmanuel I {{er}} of Portugal (1506);
Henri VIII of England (1524, 3 pinks);
Don Juan of Austria, victorious of the Battle of Lépante, the October 7th 1571, against the Turkish fleet (1576);
Henri de Valois, king de Pologne, future Henri III of France (1592);
Marie-Therese of Austria, queen of France (1668);
Marie-Louise Gabrielle of Savoy, queen of Spain (1701);
Marie Leszczynska, queen of France (1736);
Francesco Loredano, doge of Venice (1759);
Marie-Amélie of Orleans, queen of Portugal (1892);
Marie-Henriette of Habsbourg-Lorraine, queen of the Belgians (1893).
Holy Therese de Lisieux (September 30th 1925).

Representation and symbolic system

The oldest representation of the gold pink (13th century) is a pink only bearing in its heart a small openwork cut containing of the balsam and the Musc. With Sixth IV, the drawing becomes complicated: the gold pink also represents thorny stems, sheets or of the buds; invaluable stones are crimped in the jewel. Thereafter, one adds a pedestal and a vase to it. Thus, in 1668, the gold pink sent by Clement IX to Marie-Therese of Austria, wife of Louis XIV, weighs 4 kilos.

The gold pink, if it is one expensive present, revêt also an importance symbolic system: the pink symbolizes the Christ - the red rose in particular symbolizing its Passion. One interprets in this direction a verse of the Cantique of the canticles: “I am the flower of the fields and read valleys” (2-1), or a verse of the Livre of Isaïe: “and it will leave a kid the trunk of Isaï, and a branch of its roots will bear fruit”. This mystical significance is present in the letters accompanying the pink, or in the marked sermons Sunday of Lætare .

Known specimens

The majority of the gold pinks were molten by their recipient, in order to recover gold with fine monetarists. The specimens remaining are thus very few:

in the treasure of the cathedral of Bénévent;
in the crowned Museum of the Library vaticane;
in the Midsummer's Day Basilica of Lateran;
with the National museum of the Middle Ages, located in the Hotel of Cluny, with Paris;
with the Palazzo Communal of His;
with the Schatzkammer of the Hofburg with Vienna.

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