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VATICAN LEO XIII MEDAL 1878
Vatican Pope Leo XIII medal, by F.Wittig, bronze, 92mm. dia., obv., bust facing left, rev., Christ with papal figures and text "TIBI DABO CLAVES REGNI COELORVM"
Pope Leo XIII (2 March 1810 - 20 July 1903), born Count Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 257th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903, succeeding Pope Pius IX. Reigning until the age of 93, he was the oldest pope, and had the third longest pontificate, behind Pius IX and John Paul II. He is known for intellectualism, the development of social teachings with his encyclical Rerum Novarum and his attempts to define the position of the Church to modern thinking.
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