I WISH I HAD THIS PICTURE IN SILVER, BUT UNFORTUNATELY I DON'T. SO PLEASE BEAR WITH THE BRONZE VERSION AS IT IS THE BEST REPRESENTATION OF THE MEDAL IN PICTURE I COULD FIND.
THIS ITEM IS ABOUT 1 INCH HIGH AND COMES WITH A JUMP RING TO MAKE IT EASY TO ATTACH TO YOUR FAVORITE NECKCHAIN, KEYCHAIN, BRACELET, ROSARY OR WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE. IT IS MADE OF SILVER THAT IS OXIDIZED AND WAS STRUCK IN ITALY. IT DOES NOT COME WITH A CHAIN.IT DOES HOWEVER COME WITH A WONDERFUL PROMISE! PLEASE READ ON.
The Miraculous Medal, also known as the Medal of the Immaculate Conception, is a medal created by Saint Catherine Labouré in response to a request from the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Many Catholics around the world (and some non-Catholics) wear the Miraculous Medal, which they believe will bring them divine blessings if worn with piety. It is often worn together with the Brown Scapular.
Saint Catherine stated that on the night of July 18, 1830 she awoke upon hearing a voice of a child calling her to the sisters' chapel (located in the Rue du Bac, Paris), where she heard the Blessed 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 November 27, 1830, Catherine reported that the Blessed Mother returned during evening meditations. She displayed herself inside an oval frame, standing upon a globe, wearing many rings of different colors, most of which 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, in english O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you. As Catherine watched, the frame seemed to rotate, showing a circle of twelve stars, a large letter M surmounted by a cross, and the stylized Sacred Heart of Jesus crowned with thorns and Immaculate Heart of Mary pierced with a sword underneath. Asked why some of her rings did not shed light, Mary reportedly replied “Those are the graces for which people forget to ask.” Catherine then heard 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.”
Catherine did so, and after two years' worth of investigation and observation of Catherine's normal daily behavior, the priest took the information to his archbishop without revealing Catherine's identity. The request was approved and medallions began to be produced. Those who wore the medal felt that they had received great blessings, and the medal came to be referred to as the “Miraculous Medal.” They proved to be popular and the medals spread worldwide.
One of the most remarkable facts recorded in connection with the Miraculous Medal is the conversion of a Jew, Marie Ratisbonne of Strasburg, who had resisted the appeals of a friend to enter the Church. Alphonse Ratisbonne consented, somewhat reluctantly, to wear the medal, and being in Rome, he entered, by chance, the church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte and beheld in a vision the Blessed Virgin Mary exactly as she is represented on the medal; his conversion speedily followed.
THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL...IS A PROMISE, IF YOU WILL, FROM MARY THROUGH ST CATHERINE TO US, OF SPECIAL GRACES.
HERE IS A COMMON AND SIMPLE PRAYER USED IN NOVENAS TO OUR LADY OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL THAT YOU YOU MAY WANT TO USE.
Immaculate Virgin Mary, mother of our Lord Jesus and
our mother, we have confidence in your powerful and
never-failing intercession, manifested often through
the Miraculous Medal. We your loving and trustful
children ask you to obtain for us the graces and favors
we ask during this novena if they will be for the
glory of God and the salvation of souls
(Here privately form your petitions.)
You know, O Mary, how often our souls have been the
sanctuaries of your Son who hates iniquity. Obtain for us
then a deep hatred of sin and that purity of heart which will attach us to God alone so that our every thought, word, and deed may tend to his greater glory. Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-denial that we may recover by penance what we have lost by sin and at length attain to that blessed abode where you are the queen of angels and of men. Amen.
MAY THIS MEDAL AND PRAYER BRING DIVINE GRACES TO ALL WHO CARRY AND BELIEVE IT'S PROMISE!!
HAPPY EBAYING AND STAY BLESSED!
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