FAIL! Vatican Forgets How To Spell Jesus And They Can't Blame It On Autocorrect

The Vatican has withdrawn thousands of official papal medals from sale after discovering they had misspelled Jesus' name. A Latin inscription around the edge of the medals to mark the first year of Pope Francis' pontificate referred to "Lesus".

The medals, produced in gold, silver and bronze by the Italian State Mint, went on sale in official Vatican stores on October 8 but were withdrawn two days later after the error was noticed, says the Vatican Publishing House.

The inscription is Francis' papal motto, taken from a meditation by the 8th-century English monk the Venerable Bede on a passage of the Gospel in which Jesus calls St Matthew to be an apostle.

It reads on the Vatican website: "Vidit ergo Jesus publicanum, et quia miserando atque 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'".

Before they were withdrawn, four people purchased medals displaying the typo, which could fetch high prices on rare coin markets. Just call it a gift from God.