G: The Commission (1865):
On December 11, 1865, Pope Pius IX decreed that the icon must return to the place Mary herself had designated. After a careful restoration, he entrusted its care to the Redemptorists, with the urgent instruction: "Make it known!"
Below the painting, in Old Dutch, it reads: "His Holiness Pius IX grants an audience to the Most Reverend Superior General of the Redemptorists on December 11, 1865. Having completed all formalities, H.H. wrote: The Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda is ordered to make known to the Superior of Posterula that it is Our will that the painting spoken of in this petition be returned between St. John and Mary of the Vienna".
