Help ID rosary saint

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I received this pearl Jubilaeum AD 2000 rosary from my mother in-law a few years ago. She doesn’t remember where she got it or who the saint is represented on the medal. Can anyone help me identify this praying nun?
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I’m not positive that’s a nun. Could be a monk in a cowl. The face and hands look masculine.

What does the other side of that medal say?
 
St Therese was canonized in 1925, the date emblazoned on the medal. It was typical to issue commemorative items for the date of canonization, and I think the likeness could be St Therese, but that’s just a guess. The garment draping doesn’t look a lot like that of St Therese.
 
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I have a feeling it isn’t meant to represent a particular nun or monk, rather it is perhaps an image of a pious member of the faithful.
 
Or a religious of a particular order.
It appears almost like the person pictured is praying in a cave. Possibly St Bernadette? But again it does not look like her.
 
It could possibly be St. Cecelia. It looks like the book peeking out behind her could be a musical score. There was specific celebration for St. Cecelia during the Jubilee. There was a orchestral and choral work depicting her life and martyrdom written for the Jubilee and first performed on November 19, right before her feast day. The musical aspects of the Jubilee were put under her patronage.
 
Here’s the back of the medal:
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I think it isn’t 1925, but rather 925, probably a print number, rather than a date. Interestingly, it’s on the crucifix as well:
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Awhile back I prayed to the saint, asking for him or her to reveal themselves to me. I’ve never been one to hear mystical messages/answers or been able to easily distinguish spiritual promptings vs my own thoughts, but while praying the rosary that time, the name Gertrude popped into my head. But this may have merely been a push to remind me of the prayer for souls in purgatory which had fallen from my memory and is now part of my daily prayer routine.
 
That makes good sense. Thanks.

So probably a non-specific member of the faithful. What order would picture their members in caves?
 
So I did some research. I’m fairly certain it is Jacinta Marto. The youngest of the Fatima seers who was beatified in 2000.
 
Granted it’s not a very good likeness. But she appears to be wearing a shawl, like Jacinta
 
Curious what research led you to that?

I like the possibility: I’ve been feeling an overwhelmingly strong attraction — wrong word, perhaps — urgency to the Fatima message, for the last few months, specifically since I started praying with this rosary, and far deeper than I’ve ever felt it before. I prayed to the young seers just last week in fact, something I’ve never done before.

Maybe this was an early image of Jacinta that was produced for the beatification in 2000, and was replaced in later sacramentals with the better images you find if you Google search for her now.
 
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The rosary has “Iubilaeum” (latin for Jubilee). So it was probably produced to commemorate the Jubilee year in 2000 and distributed in Rome. I then looked at the canonized saints in 2000 and found no women that would have worn a shawl or lay clothes for that matter (lots of nuns). I then looked at a list of beatified saints that year and when I saw Jacinta on the list I thought it was her but checked the other women as well. She would be the only one to wear a shawl. So I think it was a rosary for the jubilee to commemorate her beatification.
 
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