Doll in the form of a nun

The doll is wearing the habit of a Capuchin nun (old style). She is wearing a large black veil, a white wimple and bandeau, a dark-brown tunic and a scapular. She also has a white plaited cingulum and rosary beads with a crucifix and a holy medal. The doll also has a small prayerbook.

This habit was commonly worn by the nuns from the Monastery of the Presentation of Mary in Zug until around 1970, and some of the older nuns continued to wear it even after that time.

The Medal of Our Lady of Graces (also known as a Miraculous Medal) goes back to the Marian apparitions reported by Catherine Labouré (1806–1876), a French member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, in July and November 1830.

The doll came from the former Capuchin Monastery of the Presentation of Mary in Zug. After the Reverend Mother’s death in 2019 and the departure of the last sisters in early 2021, the monastery was transferred into the ownership of the Verein Kloster Maria Opferung (the Society of the Monastery of the Presentation of Mary). At that stage the decision was made to renovate and repurpose the buildings. The doll was one of several objects transferred to the Museum Burg Zug as part of the project “Monastery of the Presentation of Mary” (2021–2024). More information on the project can be found in an article entitled “Das mobile Kulturgut aus dem ehemaligen Kapuzinerkloster Maria Opferung in Zug. Über 400 Jahre zugerische Sakral-, Kultur- und Bildungsgeschichte in Objekten” by Dr. Marco Sigg in Tugium 40 2024, pp. 87–158.