PIUS XI: (1857-1939) Pope of the Roman Catholic... Lot 485

PIUS XI: (1857-1939) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1922-39. A large vintage signed 13.5 x 20 photograph, incorporating am Apostolic Blessing, the circular image depicting the Pope seated in a half length pose wearing a cassock, mozetta and zucchetto. Photograph by Guiseppe Felici of Rome and bearing their credit stamp to the mount. Immediately beneath the image appears an attractive neat calligraphic text in black and red inks and with a decorative initial letter M, in full, 'Most Foly Father, John Jermann and family, humbly prostrate at the feet of Your Holiness, beg the Apostolic Benediction and a Plenary Indulgence to be gained at the hour of death, on condition that, being truly sorry for their sins, even though unable to confess them and to receive the holy Viaticum, they shall at least invoke with their lips, or heart, the Holy Name of Jesus'. Signed ('Pius PP. XI') by the Pope immediately beneath the text and alongside a blind embossed seal. Some light chipping to the edges of the image and with some large, extensive tears and areas of paper loss to the edges of the mount. Only about G Guiseppe Felici (1839-1923) Italian Photographer whose firm were the official photographers of the Vatican for four generations.