A Portuguese Military Order of the Christ Medal Belonged to Oscar George Potier Consul-General Of Portugal

Oscar George Potier wearing the same medal in the miniature portrait painted by his daughter-in-law, Alma Dato-Montero Potier, a distinguised watercolor miniaturist

Oscar George Potier
BIRTH 27 Sep 1871
Santa Catarina, Lisboa Municipality, Lisboa, Portugal
DEATH 20 Dec 1931 (aged 60)
Portugal
BURIAL
Cemitério dos Prazeres
Lisbon, Lisboa Municipality, Lisboa, Portugal

Consul-General of Portugal in various countries: China, Morocco, United Kingdom, etc. Married Eugenia Waddington de Brito on 23 July 1902. They had 4 children, all born in Shanghai, China:
Augusto Rato Potier (1903-1964)
António Rato Potier (1904-1990)
Maria-Eugénia Rato Potier (1905-2007)
Oscar Norberto Rato Potier (1908-2002)

From the internet:
Military Order of Christ has its origins in the medieval Order of the Knights of Our Lord Jesus Christ which was created on 14th March 1319 by Pope John XXII's Bull, " Ad ea ex quibus ". King Dennis I (1261-1325) had requested the creation of a new order to replace the suppressed Order of the Knights Templars (Pope Clement V, at the Council of Vienne, in 1312). The first Grand-Master was D. Gil Martins, whom till then had been the elected Master of the Order of St. Benedict of Avis and who died in 1321. It assumed the nature of a religious military Order, the lay knights being committed to vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. The original seat of the Order was at the medieval town of Castro Marim, in the Algarve. However, in 1357, in the reign of Peter I (1357-1367) having long ago ended the reconquest, the Order moved to the town of Tomar, former seat of the Order of the Knights Templars in Portugal. The Military Order of Christ together with the Military Orders of Aviz and of St. James of the Sword form the group of the "Ancient Military Orders", governed by a Chancellor and a Council of eight members, appointed by the President of the Republic, to assist him as Grand-Master in all matters concerning the administration of the Order.