St. Aurelia collection of Strasbourg Medal

More About St. Aurelia of Strasbourg:
A princess who became a hermitess. A friend of St. Wolfgang, Aurelia spent more than half a century as a recluse in a Benedictine abbey in Salzburg, Austria.
According to the legend, Aurelia accompanied Saint Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins from Roman Britain to Cologne, where they were favourably received by Aquilin, bishop of the place. From Cologne they traveled to Basel. From Basel the travelers descended the Rhine to Strasbourg where St Aurelia succumbed to a violent fever, dying after a few days. Three virgins were left to care for her. She was particularly invoked against fevers in the church that bears her name. [1] Her three companions lived many years in the same place and were buried there. Some centuries later their tomb was opened and their bodies were found completely intact, marked with titles bearing their names. This legend is reproduced in the current breviary of the Diocese of Strasbourg.

Grandidier, who questions the authenticity of the legend, observed that the cult of Saint Aurelia was already very popular in Strasbourg by the 9th century.

The church of Sainte Aurélie in Strasbourg is supposed to have been built over the crypt in which the tomb of Saint Aurelia was situated.

In 1524, Martin Bucer (a Protestant), soon after his appointment as pastor of the church, instigated members of the gardeners' guild to collection open the tomb and remove the bones, justifying this on the grounds that the tomb had become an object of idolatry.


Her Feast Day is October 15th. Died in 1027.


Medal is the size of a dime and also 100% Sterling Silver.
All Sterling Silver is protected with a tarnish resistance to help it last for years without tarnishing.

Source: Wikipedia, Aurelia of Strasbourg

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