Holy Card of St. Bernardine of Siena & a 1" Silver Oxidized Medal of Bernardine

Description

Laminated Holy Card (4.75" X 3.25") of St. Bernardine of Siena Plus a 1" Silver Oxidized Medal of Saint Bernardine. The medal was made in Italy and has the image of Saint Bernardine on one side and pray for us on the reverse.
Bernardino of Siena (also known in English as Bernardine; September 8, 1380 –May 20, 1444) was an Italian priest and Franciscan missionary. He was a systematizer of Scholastic economics. His popular preaching made him famous during his own lifetime because it was frequently directed against sorcery, gambling, infanticide, witchcraft, homosexuality, Jews, and usury. Bernardino was later canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint - where he is also referred to as “the Apostle of Italy” - for his efforts to revive the country's Catholic faith during the 15th century.
Saint Bernardino is the Roman Catholic patron saint of advertising, communications, compulsive gambling, respiratory problems, as well as any problems involving the chest area. He is the patron saint of Carpi, Italy; the Philippine barangays of Kay-Anlog in Calamba, Laguna and Tuna in Cardona, Rizal; and the diocese of San Bernardino, California, USA. Siena College, a Franciscan Catholic liberal arts college in New York, USA, was named after him and placed under his spiritual patronage. The mountain pass in the Alps, Il Passo di San Bernardino, is named in honor of the saint, whose fame reached well into northern Italy and southern Switzerland.