Badge Help Please?

lenc

HI

CAN ANYONE SHED ANY LIGHT ON WHAT THIS BADGE IS ABOUT PLEASE?




looks like B M A on the top?


THANKS FOR READING THIS

Chucken

British Medical Association?

shanew

I think medical logos usually have snake & chalice, or snake and staff.

latest BMA badge is like this


older version was

lottpaul

The badge looks like the one used by all Dominican schools, colleges etc. Would that be a picture of St. Dominic in the centre of the badge?

Might be totally wrong, and have no idea what school BMA might refer to. Could it be a badge for head girl/boy or some such?

lenc

thanks guys.

i should have said both my parents were medics,my father a doctor and my mother a nurse.

i was confused though by the missing logo. could the head in the pic be hippocrates? usually depicted as a bearded older man

Jellybaby1

May be a Medical association, but not British. There is a badge for the Chinese Medical Association and one for the Canada Medical Association, so try either a different country or a different medical science. Sorry this isn't really much help.

lenc

hi
i've been on to the british medical assoc and its not theirs.
i wonder is there a religious group it may belong to?if so would be catholic

mid to late 20th cent i would guess.

would be irish,either north or south

pedroeibar1

Most medical bodies would incorporate the rod of Asclepius, so I would be inclined to dismiss the British Medical Association link.

The badge looks as if made in a small production run, as the enamelling work is intricate but not very high quality. It appears to have been hand finished, judging from the file marks on the metal.

The shield design and colouring certainly suggest a link to the Dominicans as suggested by lottpaul above. See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seal_of_the_Dominican_Order.png

It would be worth contacting them.

lenc

pedroeibar1 wrote: »

It would be worth contacting them.

you were right guys and thank you!

seemingly the head is st martin de porres.they suggested it was dated prior to 1962 in reference to the B and M ie blessed martin.he was canonized in 1962 and so was known as saint after that.

still dont know what the A was but looks like a definite answer to this query:)

laros

Could the "A" stand for association as in Blessed Martin Association...?

spurious

Blessed Martin Apostolate, or nowadays, the St. Martin Apostolate.

lenc

yep thats got it i'd say!

be dropping in there this week DV.

thanks again guys.wold never have thought of this myself!

Chucken

Patron Saint of Barbers

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=306


I'm delighted you found out what it is. It was driving me mad

lenc

thanks everyone!

i enclose a small newspaper article about this.

seems the trip was arranged by father louis coffey [a dominican father] with help from his brother albert coffey a travel agent.

each pilgrim from ireland got one of these badges when they sailed from dublin to italy [port as yet unknown] for the canonization of the then blessed martin de porres.

i would love to find the ships register from this trip to see if i can identify which of my family travelled.




thanks again to everyone!



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