Miraculous Medal - The Story of Our Lady's Appearances to Saint Catherine Laboure

The Miraculous Medal The Story of Our Lady's Appearances to Saint Catherine Laboure
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Author: Format: ISBN: H x W: Manufacturer: Date: Pages:	Mary Fabyan Windeatt Soft Cover 0-89555-417-8 8 1/4" (20.9 cm) x 5 1/2" (13.9 cm) TAN 1991 107

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"Sister, it couldn't have happened!" declared the priest. It was all a dream, like the other time."

But Sister Catherine shook her head with childlike confidence. "Oh no, Father! I see the Blessed Virgin as plainly as I see you. And she wants the medal made right away, so people can wear it and start receiving graces."

Father Aladel just could not believe that Our Lady was appearing to Sister Catherine Laboure - and asking for a medal to be made too! Why, Sister Catherine was only a novice!

"Forget the whole thing," he told her. "Just say your prayers and try to be like the other Sisters."

Catherine obediently tried to forget - but then the Blessed Mother came again! And again she asked for the Medal to be made.

Would Our Lady's request ever be granted? Would Fr. Aladel ever believe she had really come? And what were the "great graces" she had promised to those who wore the Medal with confidence?

This book shows what happened, also telling about Catherine's second mother, about obstinate old John-who refused to have anything to do with the Medal-and about how Sister Catherine kept her big secret.

In short, here is the wonderful story of what happened when the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to young St. Catherine Laboure.

St. Catherine Laboure

Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 11/28
Tridentine Calendar - 12/31

Patron Of: Miraculous Medal

Profile
    Ninth of eleven children born to a farm family, and from an early age felt a call to the religious life. Never learned to read or write. Forced to take over running the house at age eight after her mother died and her older sister joined the Sisters of Charity. Worked as a waitress in her uncle's cafe in Paris. Upon entering a hospital run by the Sisters of Charity she received a vision in which Saint Vincent de Paul told her that God wanted her to work with the sick, and she later joined the order, taking the name Catherine.

    On 18 July 1830 she had a vision of Our Lady who described to her a medal which she wished struck. On one side it has the image of Our Lady, and the words, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee"; on the other are the hearts of Jesus and Mary. Our Lady told Catherine that wearers of the medal would receive great graces, it has become known as the Miraculous Medal, and its wearing and devotion has spread worldwide. Miracles reported at her tomb.

Born
    2 May 1806 at Fain-les-Moûtiers, Côte d'Or, Burgundy, France as Zoe Laboure

Died
    31 December 1876 at Enghien-Reuilly, France; body incorrupt; entombed in her convent chapel

Beatified
    1933 by Pope Pius XI

Canonized
    27 July 1947 by Pope Pius XII

All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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