Golden Rose

The Golden Rose ( Rose Pope, virtue Rose, latin Rosa aurea ) is a papal honor. The rose is a forged silver-gilt rose bouquet rose from six branches with six petals, which are filled with fragrant essences ( balms and musk ).

The symbol of the golden rose stands for Jesus Christ. The gold points to his resurrection out the thorns on the Passion. Traditionally, the Golden Rose on the 4th Sunday of Lent ( Laetare ), which is therefore also called Rose Sunday, a personality, a state, a city or an organization is awarded, which had done great service to the Catholic Church. Every year a new rose was made on behalf of the Pope by a goldsmith.

History of Honour

One of the first Golden Roses gave Pope Urban II in 1096 the Count of Anjou. The early 14th century by Pope Clement V, the Prince-Bishop of Basel, awarded and at the Musée de Cluny in Paris kept Golden Rose is one of the earliest surviving examples. The 1417 awarded to the Council of Florence Golden Rose consisted of nine decorated with sapphires golden flowers, which were filled with balsam, musk and myrrh. Pope Innocent III. (1198-1216) compared the Golden Rose with Jesus and said, " Like the rose was composed of gold, musk and balsam, so also Jesus of three substances from the deity of the human soul and the human body there. "

Sometimes the Golden Rose but was also given to personalities, to make the papal influence inclined. Thus, the papal chamberlain, Karl von Miltitz brought in early January 1519 rose to the Elector Frederick the Wise, to encourage these to suppress the teaching of Martin Luther.

Originally, the award was reserved for men. But when she later went to women, they were called mostly virtue rose. Men have since that time been awarded the Pope sword. The practice of the virtue to forgive Rose to women, up until present time: 1925, the Belgian Queen Elisabeth was honored by the Pope with the Golden Rose. The last reigning person who received the virtue Rose, was Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg in 1956. The first virtue Rose said to have received the Queen Giovanna of Sicily.

Pope John Paul II has the special distinction of the great pilgrimage sites of Czestochowa, Loreto, Knock in Ireland and at Lourdes, his successor, Benedict XVI. awarded to the places of pilgrimage Mariazell, Aparecida, Altötting and Ta ' Pinu.

Carriers of the Golden Rose

Ruler

Falcone, Count of Angers ( Urban II, 1096 )
Alfonso VII, king of Castile ( Eugene III. , 1148 )
Louis VII, King of France (Alexander III. In 1163 )
Louis I of Hungary ( Clement I. 1348 )
Albrecht II, Duke of Bavaria
Ranuccio Farnese il Vecchio, Condottiere, feudal lord and Senator of Rome
Emperor Sigismund ( Eugene IV in 1435 )
Henry VI. of England ( Eugene IV in 1444 )
Casimir IV, King of Poland ( Nicholas V., 1448 )
Emperor Frederick III. and his wife Eleonora ( Nicholas V in 1452 )
Charles VII, King of France ( Callistus III. In 1457 )
Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg ( Sixtus IV in 1482 )
James III. of Scotland ( Innocent VIII in 1486 )
Alexander, King of Poland ( Julius II 1505)
Manuel I of Portugal ( 1506 Julius II and Leo X, 1514)
Frederick III. , Elector of Saxony ( Leo X 1519)
Henry VIII of England ( Julius II, Leo X and Clement VII in 1524 )
Frederick, Duke of Mantua (Paul III. In 1537 )
Henry IV, King of France and Navarre ( Clement VIII in 1598 )
Francesco Loredan, Doge of Venice ( Clement XIII. 1759)

Rulers

Joanna I, Queen of Naples (1368 )
Isabella, Queen of Castile (Alexander VI. 1493 )
VIII Mary I of England, daughter of Henry ( Paul IV 1555)
Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain ( Clement VIII in 1598 ) on the wedding day with Philip III.
Received Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England and Scotland, in Amiens ( Urban VIII, 1625)
Maria Anna of Spain, Queen of Hungary (Urban VII 1630)
Was Maria Theresa of Spain, Queen of France, for her minor son, whose godfather Pope Alexander VII (1668 )
Eleonora Maria Józefa, Queen of Poland ( Clement X 1672)
Marie Louise de la Grange d' Casimire Arquien, wife of John III. Sobieski, the savior of Vienna ( Innocent XI. 1684)
Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick- Calenberg, Empress ( Innocent XII. 1699)
Marie Louise of Savoy, Queen of Spain ( Clement XI. 1701)
Maria Christina, Archduchess of Austria ( Pius VI. 1776)
Maria Theresa of Austria -Este, Queen of Piedmont-Sardinia ( Leo XII. 1825)
Maria Anna of Sardinia, Queen of Hungary, then empress ( Gregory XVI. 1832)
Mary II, Queen of Portugal ( Gregory XVI. 1842)
Maria Pia of Savoy, Queen of Portugal on the day of their baptism ( Pius IX. Than her godfather 1849)
Eugenie, Empress of the French ( Pius IX. 1856)
Isabella II of Spain ( Pius IX. 1868)
Maria Christina of Austria, Royal Regent of Spain ( Leo XIII. 1886)
Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil ( Leo XIII in 1889. )
Amélie d' Orléans, last Queen of Portugal ( Leo XIII. , 1892)
Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians ( Leo XIII. 1893)
Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians (1925 )
Charlotte of Luxembourg (1956 )

Cities

Council of Florence ( 1417 )
Republic of Venice by Pope Sixtus IV ( 1476 )

Churches and Monasteries

Saint Peter's in Rome ( five times )
St. John Lateran in Rome ( twice)
Sancta Sanctorum chapel in St. John Lateran (twice)
Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome ( twice)
Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome ( once)
Collegiate St. Ansgarii, Bremen, before 1363
Sanctuary of Andechs, ( Nicholas V. ), 1455
Sant'Antonio ( national church of the Portuguese in Rome) (once)
Fraternal Order of Gonfalon (once)
Basilica Of our Lady of Loreto (John Paul II, 1997)
St. Therese of Lisieux in France ( Benedict XV. 1920)
Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal (Paul VI. , 1965)
Our Lady of Guadelupe (Paul VI. , 1966)
Aparecida in Brazil (Paul VI. 1976 Benedict XVI. 2007)
Nuestra Señora de Luján in Argentina (John Paul II 1982)
Nuestra Señora de la Evangelización in Lima in Perú (John Paul II 1988)
Our Lady of Sameiro at Braga in Portugal (John Paul II 2003)
Jasna Gora in Czestochowa in Poland ( John Paul II and Benedict XVI. 2006)
Knock in Ireland (John Paul II )
Lourdes in France (John Paul II 2004)
St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, Canada (John Paul II 2004)
Mariazell in Austria ( Benedict XVI. 2007)
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC ( Benedict XVI. 2008)
Grace Altotting ( Benedict XVI. 2008)
Our Lady of Bonaria in Cagliari in Sardinia ( Benedict XVI. 2008)
Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompei ( Benedict XVI. 2008)
Our Lady of Europe in Gibraltar ( Benedict XVI. 2008)
Our Lady of Ta ' Pinu in Gozo, Malta ( Benedict XVI. 2010)
Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel Scherpenheuvel - Zichem, Brabant on February 2, 2011 by Benedict XVI.
Virgin of Charity del Cobre in El Cobre, Cuba on 27 March 2012 by Benedict XVI.

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