ITALY stamped pendant. No metal stampings?

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Hello all, any idea on what this piece may be? I am more curious then often due to it not having a metal stamping and only have “ITALY” stamped very small. Thanks to all!
 

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You can see the silver plate peeling off the back. My first guess would be brass or pot metal.
 
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I see this too although would that metal be strong enough to not break off the loop of the pendant? It is very strong I can’t even bend it. It does have some weight to and have not cleaned it up yet. Another question is why would someone stamp ITALY on it? Strange. Thank you sir!
 
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Another question is why would someone stamp ITALY on it?

Because it is a Catholic religious pendant and headquarters of the Catholic church is in Italy. It makes it 'more official' to the buyer...
 
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I believe most of the authentic Catholic religious items do come from Italy. If you think about it, the Catholic church has run the longest continually operated novelty shop throughout history. Maybe close to a thousand years now?
 
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St. Christopher is the patron saint of travelers. I thought he was "de-sainted" but I was wrong.
From Catholic.com...

"St. Christopher is still recognized as a saint, though his feast day no longer appears on the Church’s universal liturgical calendar. He was one of the early martyrs about whom not much is known. His name means "Christ-bearer," which reflects the story told of him that he carried the child Jesus across a river. Because so little is known of Christopher, he may have been known only by his story and people gave him a name that reflected the story. Canonizations arose centuries after Christopher’s time. Many of the early saints, including Christopher, were never formally canonized but were acclaimed as saints by Christian communities. In recent decades the Church has removed the feast days of obscure saints from the universal liturgical calendar, but the saints still remain saints, and their feast days may still be observed by parishes bearing their name and by those with a continuing devotion to the saint."
 
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