Vin Mariani
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Vin Mariani was a coca wine and patent medicine created in the 1860s by Angelo Mariani, a French chemist from the island of Corsica. Mariani became intrigued with coca and its medical and economic pot
Advertising bill for the wine Mariani, lithograph of Jules Chéret, 1894
Pope Leo XIII purportedly carried a hipflask of Vin Mariani with him, and awarded a Vatican gold medal to Angelo Mariani.
Vin Mariani medal by Louis-Oscar Roty
Medal of Coca Mariani wine
Pope Leo XIII
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Pope Leo XIII was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign and third-longest verified reign of any pope, behind those of St. Peter, Pius IX, and J
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…household names, and reprinted them in newspapers and magazines as advertisements. He claimed to have collected over four thousand such endorsements. Pope Leo XIII and later Pope Pius X were both Vin Mariani drinkers. Pope Leo appeared on a poster endorsing the wine and awarded a Vatican gold medal to Mariani for…
Leo XIII, c. 1878
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Archbishop Pecci as Nuncio in Brussels
Archbishop Pecci enters Perugia in 1846.