The Trsat medals were made for the shrine in Trsat, where the Franciscan order has been present since 1453. The shrine grew in popularity because of the legend about the translation of the Holy House, which was where the Annunciation had taken place and where the Holy Family had lived. It is believed that angels carried the house from the Holy Land to Trsat, where it was located from 10 May 1291 to 10 December 1294, after which it continued its journey to Loreto. The removal of the House caused such grief among the local population that, in 1367, Pope Urban V presented the Trsat shrine with a wooden icon of the Virgin and Child, believed to have been painted by St Luke. Golden crowns were added to the Virgin and Jesus depicted on the icon in 1715, and this representation of the miraculous icon appears on the obverse of all Trsat medals. The medals’ reverse depicts the shield of St Benedict or St Benedict himself, in front of whom there is often the Canticle of Zacharias. The medals were made of bronze sheet, could be octagonal or oval, and – as the Rijeka ones – are assumed to have been produced locally. After the 18th century, Our Lady of Trsat appears on medals with images of the Trsat shrine, the Holy House or in combination with the Rijeka crucifix.