Order of Saint Agatha

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Order of Saint Agatha
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Grand Officer grade of the Order.
Type State order
CountryFlag of San Marino.svg  San Marino
Awarded forCharitable work in the service of the Republic.
Grandmaster Captains Regent
Secretary Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Precedence
Next (higher) Order of San Marino


The Order of Saint Agatha (Italian : Ordine Equestre di Sant'Agata) is a State order established on 5 June 1923 by the Grand and General Council of the Republic of San Marino. It is named after Saint Agatha, on whose feast day 5 February, Pope Clement XII reestablished the sovereignty of the republic in 1740. [1]

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The order is presented to foreign nationals who have positively contributed charitable and other services for the benefit of the republic deserving of recognition.

The award is conferred by the Grand and General Council on the proposal of the Most Excellent Regency of the Republic of San Marino. It has 5 ranks: Grand Cross, Grand Officer, Commander, Officer and Knight. [2]

The badge of the order is a golden cross enamelled in white. It is charged on one side with a round golden shield bearing the effigy of Saint Agatha and includes the inscription Sant'Agata Prottetrice (Saint Agatha Protector). On the other side is written the epigraph Bene Merenti (to a well-deserving person). The cross is hung on a ribbon with five stripes of white, crimson and yellow. [3]

The Order of San Marino is the next higher in order of precedence.

Grades

The order is presented in five ranks: [1]

  1. Knight of Grand Cross (Cavaliere Gran Croce)
  2. Knight Grand Officer (Cavaliere Grande Ufficiale)
  3. Knight Major Officer or Commander (Cavaliere Ufficiale Maggiore o Commendatore)
  4. Knight Officer (Cavaliere Ufficiale)
  5. Knight (Cavaliere)
Ribbon bars of the Order of Saint Agatha
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Knight
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Officer
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Commander
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Grand Officer
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Grand Cross

Recipients

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Order of St. Agatha Grand Cross badge.
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Order of St. Agatha Grand Cross star.
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Order of St. Agatha Grand Cross set.

Prominent people who have been awarded the Order of Saint Agatha [4]

Year of awardRecipient
Prince Dominique de La Rochefoucauld-Montbel
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy – Pietro Gasparri [5]
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy – Dino Grandi [6]
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy – Giovanni Marinelli
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy – Giulio Onesti [7]
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium – Robert Rothschild [8]
1925Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States – Edgar Erskine Hume [9]
1932Flag of Vatican City (2023-present).svg  Vatican City – Pope Paul VI
1934Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom – Edward VII [10]
1934Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom – Edward VIII [11]
1935 Jagatjit Singh [12]
1937Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom – Edmund Vivian Gabriel [13]
1944Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States – Charles Poletti [14]
1946Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States – Juvenal P. Marchisio
1948Flag of Italy.svg  Italy – Giulio Andreotti
1937Flag of France.svg  France – Valery Larbaud
1956Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States – Avery Brundage [15]
1956Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom – Sir John Wilson, 2nd Baronet
1958Flag of Italy.svg  Italy – Giovanni Spadolini
1958Flag of France.svg  France – Vincent Delpuech
1958Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium – Roger Motz
1958Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium – Lucien Cooremans [16]
2002Flag of Italy.svg  Italy – Dario Fo [17]
2010Flag of Monaco.svg  Monaco – Albert II, Prince of Monaco [18]
2012Flag of Italy.svg  Italy – Sophia Loren [19]
2013Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea – Ban Ki-moon [20]
2019Flag of Russia.svg  Russia – Sergey Lavrov [21]
2020Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom – Theresa May [22]
2020Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom – Jeremy Hunt [22]
2021Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom/Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon – Nadey Hakim [23]
2021Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom – Andrew Rosindell [24]
2021Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom – George Holmes [25]
2022Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom – Lisa Cameron [26]
2023Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom – Sheryll Murray [27]

Design

The Orders design is made up of a white-enamelled cross backed by a green-enamelled wreath of oak and laurel leaves. The central disc bears a painted image of Saint Agatha, the Orders namesake, surrounded by a white-enamelled ring. The ring bears the words; "SANT AGATA PROTETTRICE" (Saint Agatha Protector), while the bottom has a gold laurel wreath. The reverse of the badge shows a gold representation of the Coat of Arms of San Marino, surrounded by the Orders motto: Bene Merenti.

The ribbon of the Order is actually the colours of the flag of San Marino, used between 1465 and 1797. [28] The ribbon is made up of the three colours, with a larger field of burgundy in the center, edged with smaller bands of white and orange on both sides.


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