The Miraculous Medal

"All the people who wear this medal will receive great graces,
especially wearing it around your neck "
"The graces will be abundant for the people who will bring it with confidence".
These were the extraordinary words spoken by the Madonna
on the occasion of its demonstrations in Santa Caterina Labouré, in 1830.
Since then and until today, this torrent of graces that flows from eternity towards us,
he never stopped for all those who wear the Miraculous Medal with faith.
Devotion is very simple: you need to wear the medal with faith,
and invoke the Protection of the Virgin several times a day with the ejaculatory:
"O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who turn to you"

In the night between 18 and 19 July 1830, Catherine is led by an angel
in the large chapel of the Mother House, where the first apparition of the Madonna took place
who said to her: “My daughter, God wants to entrust you with a mission.
You will have much to suffer, but you will willingly suffer, thinking that it is the glory of God. "
The second apparition took place on 27 November always in the chapel, Catherine described it thus:

”I saw the Most Holy Virgin, her stature was medium, and her beauty such that it is impossible for me to describe her.
He was standing, his robe was of silk and white-aurora color, high-necked and with smooth sleeves.
A white veil descended from her head to her feet, her face was quite uncovered,
the feet rested on a globe or rather on a half globe,
and under the Virgin's feet, there was a green-yellow-speckled snake.
His hands, raised to the height of the belt, held naturally
another smaller globe, which represented the universe.
She had her eyes turned to heaven, and her face became shining as she presented the globe to Our Lord.
All of a sudden, his fingers were covered with rings, adorned with precious stones, which threw luminous rays.
While I was intent on contemplating her, the Blessed Virgin looked down at me,
and a voice was heard that said to me:
"This globe represents the whole world, especially France and every single person ...".
Here I can't say what I felt and what I saw, the beauty and splendor of the blazing rays! ...
and the Virgin added: "I am the symbol of the graces that I spread on the people who ask me."
I understood how sweet it is to pray to the Blessed Virgin
how many graces you grant to the people who pray to you and what joy you try to grant them.
Among the gems there were some that did not send rays. Maria said:
"The gems from which rays do not leave are a symbol of the graces that you forget to ask me."
Among them the most important is the pain of sins.

And here is formed around the Most Holy Virgin an oval in the shape of a medal, on which, at the top,
as a semicircle from the right hand to the left of Maria
these words were read, written in golden letters:
"O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who turn to you".
Then a voice was heard that said to me: “He makes a medal on this model:
all the people who bring it will receive great graces; especially wearing it around the neck.
The graces will be abundant for the people who will bring it with confidence ".

Then I saw the downside.
There was the monogram of Mary, that is the letter "M" surmounted by a cross and,
as the basis of this cross, a thick line, that is the letter "I", monogram of Jesus, Jesus.
Below the two monograms, there were the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
surrounded the first by a crown of thorns, the second pierced by a sword. "

The medal of the Immaculate Conception, was coined in 1832, two years after the apparitions,,
and was called by the people themselves, "Miraculous Medal",
for the large number of spiritual and material graces obtained through Mary's intercession.