Fox and Goose Replica Medieval Badge, Boxed With Brief Historical Descripition Children's_Discovery & Learning A member of the Iona

A member of the Iona Community

with IHS engraving on the hinged Lid

and packed with theological significance

has been leading pilgrimages to Rome for decades

Number of Pages 120 Paperback Edition

Fox and Goose Replica Medieval Badge, Boxed With Brief Historical Descripition Children's_Discovery & Learning A member of the IonaThis unusual badge, depicting a fox dressed as a pilgrim with pilgrims staff and scrip and apparently taking a goose for a walk seems to draw on popular medieval proverbs and follies for its inspiration. The fox was regarded as the archetype of cunning and deceitfulness, while the goose was a proverbially foolish bird. Here the fox seems to have tricked the goose by disguising itself as a pilgrim and is presumably leading the goose to its ultimate