The medal's obverse bears portrait of Herman Page, Bishop of Michigan. Around, · HERMAN PAGE BISHOP OF MICHIGAN · / 1924 - 1940; signed at right, KILENYI
The reverse bears bishopric seal. Around, AN EXAMPLE OF THE BELIEVERS + IN WORD + IN CONVERSATION + IN CHARITY + IN SPIRIT + IN FAITH + IN PURITY / I TIMOTHY / - IV - 12
Herman Riddle Page was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 23, 1866 to Eben Blake Page and Harriet Josephine (nee Woodward). He attended Boston Latin School and Harvard University (A.B. 1888). In 1891 he graduated from Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge and was ordained that same year. He held several positions including Holy Trinity Mission, Wallace, Idaho (a mining camp); St. Luke's Church in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; St. John's Church in Fall River, Massachusetts and Christ Church, Swanee. In 1900 he moved to St. Paul's Church in Chicago, Illinois, and in 1915 became the Bishop of the Missionary District of Spokane, Washington. His son, Herman Riddle Page, Jr., succeeded him as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan.
Harry Waterson, the Kilenyi specialist, reports that Page sat twice for Kilenyi, leading to a particularly life-like portrait. Kilenyi also took great care to match the font on the obverse to the typeface used on the diocesan seal (Lombardic). The fact that the font usd for the biblical quote on the reverse does not match makes Waterson believe that Kileny only engraved the obverse and the seal and the quotation was likely added later by a Robbins Co. staff engraver.
The circular medal measures 70mm in diameter and was struck in bronze by the Robbins Company of Attleboro, Massachusetts. The reported mintage is 500 pieces in bronze.