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27/11: Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal – Pray for Church and World…

Comment:  There are lots of stories of miracles associated with the Miraculous Medal (hence the adjective!) but the one which follows is of special interest to me because it involves the well-known American priest, Fr John Hardon SJ, whose account of our Scottish martyr, St John Ogilvie is linked on the homepage of our website The...

27 November: The Story of St Catherine Laboure & The Miraculous Medal…

Mother and Child The sound of the evening Angelus bells floated across the fields and vineyards of Burgundy. It was the second day of the month of May in the year of Our Lord 1806. In the little village of Fain-les-Moutiers a child of destiny was coming into the world, a tiny instrument of God,...

27th November: The Miraculous Medal

The Blessed Virgin herself designed the Medal of the Immaculate Conception—popularly known as the Miraculous Medal! No wonder, then, that it wins such extraordinary graces for those who wear it and pray for Mary's intercession and help. The First Apparition The story begins on the night of July 18-19, 1830. A child (perhaps her guardian angel)...