The Vatican’s Mint issued on October 13 a ten-euro silver coin depicting “Mother Earth” (pictured). The image was designed by Luigi Oldani for World Earth Day.
CronacaNumismatica.com called the representation “Madre Terra” (Mother Earth, Pachamama). It shows a woman with hair of grain and pregnant with the globe. Oldani described it as “fertile and fruitful land, fertile and fruitful like a young woman,” the Vatican as a mother carrying the Earth in her womb to which we owe “care and love as if she were a daughter.”
The coin appeared on the first anniversary of the October 2019 Pachamama enthronement in the Vatican.
A second silver coin of a value of five-euro is dedicated to the World Day of Immigration and shows St Peter allegedly welcoming illegal immigrants.
The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. (photo: Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity Discalced Carmelite Nuns)