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The medal was designed by the leading sculptor of the time, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. A rich citizen, Prince Domenico Jacobacci, commissioned the lockets to celebrate the pope’s role in quickly dealing with a plague which threatened Rome. An inscription on the back outlines this and other achievements (see adjacent label).\r\n","date":{"text":"1993 - 2011","earliest":"1993-01-01","latest":"2011-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["5419-1859"],"accessionNumberNum":"5419","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1859,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-13","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":true}}