Heaven and L: Vatican release medal to commemorate the first year of Pope Francis’s reign… but spells Jesus LESUS 
 
 Medal, created by Italian State Mint, features the Pope's motto 
 
 The Vatican said only four had been sold before medals were recalled 
 
 
 
 An official medal to commemorate the first year of Pope Francis's reign has gone on sale with a spelling mistake in Jesus's name. 
 
 
 
 The medal, commissioned by the Vatican, spells the son of God's name 'Lesus'. 
 
 
 
 Created by the Italian State Mint, the coin features the Pope's motto as seen on his coat of arms. 
 
 An official medal celebrating the first year of Pope Francis's reign has gone on sale with a spelling mistake in Jesus's name Created by the Italian State Mint, the coin features the Pope's motto as seen on his coat of arms 
 
 In Latin, it says: 'Vidit ergo Jesus publicanum et quia miserando antque eligendo vidit, ait illi sequere me'. 
 
 
 
 This means: 'Jesus therefore sees the tax collector, and since he sees by having mercy and by choosing, he says to him, follow me'. 
 
 
 
 The words come from the passage that moved the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio to follow God. 
 
 The Vatican has recalled the medallions from sale after the spelling error was pointed out. 
 
 The coin was made to commemorate the first year of Pope Francis's reign 
 
 The official press office said that only four had been sold, which they claimed will probably be of value in the future because of their rarity. 
 
 
 
 The medals are sold only through official sources with just 400 sets offered for sale, as well as 200 gold coins, 3,000 silver, and 3,000 bronze. 
 
 

 They say that God is in the details, but what about Jesus? The Vatican has had to recall 6,000 commemorative medals bearing the name "Lesus" where "Jesus" should have been. 
 
 The gold, silver and bronze medals were made by the Italian State Mint to commemorate the beginning of Pope Francis's papacy. 
 
 The medallions, which went on sale Tuesday, depict Pope Francis and a Latin phrase that he has said inspired him as a young man to pursue a life in the church. 
 
 In Latin, the phrase should have read: "Vidit ergo Jesus publicanum et quia miserando antque eligendo vidit, ait illi sequere me" -- or "Jesus therefore sees the tax collector, and since he sees by having mercy and by choosing, he says to him, follow me." 
 
 The Vatican's official press office told British tabloid Daily Mail on Thursday that four of the misspelled medals had already been sold before the recall. If the medals become valuable collector's items, as is likely, their owners will have Lesus to thank.
– You'd think if anyone was going to misspell the name of God's son, it wouldn't be the Vatican. But some 6,000 gold, silver, and bronze medals to commemorate Pope Francis have been recalled after a misspelling in a Latin phrase turned Jesus into Lesus, der Spiegel reports. The mistake wasn't actually caught until four of the medals, made by the Italian State Mint, had already been sold, adds the Daily Mail, so they're bound to be worth some money should you stumble across one.