Order of Saint Agatha

The Order is presented in five grades:^[1]

1. Grand Cross (Cavaliere Gran Croce)
2. Grand Officer (Cavaliere Grande Ufficiale)
3. Commander (Cavaliere Ufficiale Maggiore o Commendatore)
4. Officer (Cavaliere Ufficiale)
5. Knight (Cavaliere)

Order of Saint Agatha ribbon bars
Knight	Officer	Commander	Grand Officer	Grand Cross

Prominent people awarded the Order of Saint Agatha^[4]

More information Year of award, Recipient ...

Year of award	Recipient
	SMOM – Prince Dominique de La Rochefoucauld-Montbel
	Italy – Cardinal Pietro Gasparri[5]
	Italy – Dino Grandi[6]
	Italy – Giovanni Marinelli
	Italy – Giulio Onesti[7]
	Belgium – Baron Robert Rothschild[8]
1925	United States – Edgar Erskine Hume[9]
1932	Vatican City State – Pope Paul VI
1934	United Kingdom – Edward VII[10]
1934	United Kingdom – Edward VIII[11]
1935	British India – Maharajah Jagatjit Singh[12]
1937	United Kingdom – Sir Edmund Gabriel[13]
1944	United States – Charles Poletti[14]
1946	United States – Judge Juvenal Marchisio
1948	Italy – Giulio Andreotti
1937	France – Valery Larbaud
1956	United States – Avery Brundage[15]
1956	United Kingdom – Sir John Wilson
1958	Italy – Giovanni Spadolini
1958	France – Vincent Delpuech
1958	Belgium – Roger Motz
1958	Belgium – Lucien Cooremans[16]
2002	Italy – Dario Fo[17]
2010	Monaco – Prince Albert II[18]
2012	Italy – Sophia Loren[19]
2013	South Korea – Ban Ki-moon[20]
2019	Russia – Sergey Lavrov[21]
2020	United Kingdom – Theresa, Baroness May of Maidenhead[22]
2020	United Kingdom – Jeremy Hunt[22]
2021	Lebanon – Nadey Hakim[23]
2021	United Kingdom – Andrew Rosindell[24]
2021	United Kingdom – George Holmes[25]
2022	United Kingdom – Lisa Cameron[26]
2022	United Kingdom – Norman Foster[27]
2023	United Kingdom – Sheryll Murray[28]
2025	Italy – Domenico Bellantone, Consul General of Italy in the United Kingdom[29]
2025	Italy – Inigo Lambertini, Ambassador of Italy to the United Kingdom[30]
2025	United Kingdom – Dominic Johnson, Baron Johnson of Lainston[31]

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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.^[32] 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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  Grand Officer set.
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  Grand Officer set.
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  Star of the Grand Officer grade of the order.
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  Reverse of the insignia of the Grand Officer grade.
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  Close-up of the inner lid of the case of the Grand Officer showing the logo of Cravanzola, c.1940
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  Commanders class of the order.
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  Set of the Commander of the order.