Media Release

Mangalore, Feb 14: Close on  the heels of  receiving a precious exhibit  by Aloyseum, the museum of St Aloysius College, another unique exhibit has been presented to it.  The exhibit is an original certificate  of the award of the cross of honour to the German musketeer Peter Rodermann for his bravery on the front during the first world war 1914-1918.

Two of his brothers, Michel and Johann fell in the war; only he survived because of his bravery.  The certificate rolled up was preserved in the  attic of his house in the remote German village Birresborn in the Eifel.  It was discovered recently after nearly a century by his daughter Margaret Rodermann while rummaging through the attic. 

The certificate is designed in the contemporary Jugend Stil of that time and is written in Gothic script.  It also bears a small faded photograph of  Peter Rodermann.  Rodermann  a frequent visitor to Mangalore and to the Museum has  presented the certificate to the Aloyseum.  

The exhibit will be inaugurated by a group of German visitors to the museum on Wednesday  February 19 at 2:30 pm.