Behold the Bread of Angels

The images I promised yesterday.

Ecce Panis Angelorum- behold the bread of angels.  Except "ecce"- couldn't that be like in spanish- ese- that one? like "that's angel bread"?  Like, "have some angel food cake"?  That would rock.

Here it reads Na Sa D Carmen.  Our Lady of Carmen.

Now this one below, turns out, is an award for scholarship.  It reads on the back Colegio Santa Maria Premio Para Tarea de Vacaciones- Saint Mary Private School Award for Vacation Homework.  

 And you know it had to be a pretty big deal- that medal couldn't have been cheap to have made.  Back in the Stone Age.... On the other hand, it was a ritzy private school.  That's what "colegio" means.  That's why them freners always say university instead of college.  Little lesson for ya.

And God knows you come here to learn.... alternate spellings for foreigners.  

And, OK, one might suggest I could have actually looked at the medals and figured this out before making them into a necklace.  But where's the intrigue?  I just like things for their evocativeness, not their value at some Antiques Roadshow-type gathering.  I think of that as the male side of antiques.  The when-where-did-it-come-from-what-actually-is-it side.  That's my idea of male, lol.