La Médaille Miraculeuse.
The Miraculous Medal.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.The Miraculous Medal (
French: Médaille Miraculeuse), also known as The Medal of Our Lady Of Graces, is a Medal, the design of which was originated by Saint
Catherine Labouré following her
Apparitions of The Blessed Virgin Mary in
Rue du Bac, Paris,
France, and made by a Goldsmith,
Adrien Vachette.
According to the Teaching of The
Catholic Church, the use of
Sacramentals, such as this Medal, prepare people to receive Grace and dispose them to co-operate with it.
Catherine Labouré stated that, on 19 July 1830, The Eve of The Feast of Saint
Vincent de Paul, she woke up after hearing the voice of one child calling her to the Chapel, where she heard The Virgin Mary say to her: “God wishes to charge you with a mission. You will be contradicted, but do not fear; you will have the Grace to do what is necessary. Tell your Spiritual Director all that passes within you. Times are evil in France and in the World.”
On 27 November 1830, Catherine reported that The Blessed Mother returned during evening Meditations. She displayed herself inside an oval frame, standing upon a globe. She wore many rings, set with gems, that shone rays of light over the globe.
Around the margin of the frame, appeared the words: “Ô, Marie, conçue sans péché, priez pour nous qui avons recours à vous” (“O, Mary, conceived without sin, Pray for us who have recourse to thee”). As Catherine watched, the frame seemed to rotate, showing a circle of twelve stars, a large letter M surmounted by a Cross, and the stylised
Sacred Heart of Jesus Crowned with Thorns and
Immaculate Heart of Mary pierced with a Sword.
Asked why some of the gems did not shed light, Mary reportedly replied: “Those are the Graces for which people forget to ask.” Sister Catherine then heard The Virgin Mary ask her to take these images to her
Father Confessor, telling him that they should be put on Medallions, and saying: “All who wear them will receive great Graces.”
Sister Catherine did so, and after two years of investigation and observation of Catherine's ordinary daily behaviour, the
Priest took the information to his
Archbishop without revealing Catherine's identity. The request was approved and Medallions were designed and produced through a Goldsmith,
Adrien Vachette.
The
Chapel, in which Saint Catherine experienced her Visions, is located at The Mother House of The
Daughters of Charity in
Rue du Bac,
Paris. The
incorrupt bodies of Saint Catherine Labouré and Saint
Louise de Marillac, a Co-Founder of The
Congregation Of The Daughters Of Charity Of Saint Vincent De Paul, are interred in the Chapel, which continues to receive daily visits from Catholic
Pilgrims, today.
Pope John Paul II used a slight variation of the reverse image as his Coat-of-Arms, The
Marian Cross, a plain Cross with an M underneath the Right-Hand Bar (which signified The Blessed Virgin at The Foot of The Cross when Jesus was being Crucified).
The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
Our Lady Of The Miraculous Medal.
Feast Day 27 November
(in The Diocese of Brooklyn, New York).
Greater-Double.
White Vestments.
IN THE DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.Our Blessed Lady, appearing in the year 1832 to Catherine Labouré, a Sister of Charity, showed her the pattern of Medal now universally known as “The Miraculous Medal”, because of the many wonders which it has pleased Almighty God to work by its means in His Church.
Among these is the marvellous Conversion, in Rome, in 1842, of the Jew, Alphonse Ratisbonne.
Mass: Erit quasi signum.
The Nicene Creed: Is said or sung.
English: Fr. Ratisbonne in 1865.
Français: Cdv du Père Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne en 1865.
Date: 1865.
Source: Cdv ancienne.
Author: Unknown.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia.Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne,
N.D.S., (May 1, 1814,
Strasbourg,
Alsace, France - May 6, 1884,
Ein Karem,
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem,
Ottoman Empire) was a French
Jew who Converted to
Catholicism and became a
Jesuit Catholic Priest and
Missionary. He later was a Co-Founder of The
Congregation Of Our Lady of Sion, a
Religious Congregation dedicated to the
Conversion of Jews to The Catholic Faith.
