Saint Paul de la Croix or Saint Paul of the Cross Founder of The Passionists Blessed Silver Oxidized Medal

silver oxidized - comes with jump ring - size - about 3/4 of an inch
This is a blessed item
back of the medal reads "PRAY FOR US"

Paul of the Cross, originally named Paolo Francesco Danei, was born on 3 January 1694, in the town of Ovada, Piedmont, between Turin and Genoa in the Duchy of Savoy in northern Italy.

His parents were Luca and Anna Maria Massari Danei (sometimes spelled Daneii).^[2] His father ran a small dry-goods store, and moved his family and store from town to town near Genoa trying to make ends meet.Paul was the second of sixteen children, six of whom survived infancy; and learned at an early age the reality of death and the uncertainty of life. Paul received his early education from a priest who kept a school for boys, in Cremolino, Lombardy. He made great progress and at the age of fifteen he left school and returned to his home at Castellazzo. In his early years he taught catechism in churches near his home.

Paul experienced a conversion to a life of prayer at the age of 19. Influenced by his reading of the "Treatise on the Love of God" by Francis de Sales and the direction he received from priests of the Capuchin Order, it became his lifelong conviction that God is most easily found in the Passion of Christ.