The powerful Saint Benedict medal to receive thanks and protection

The origins of the Medal of San Benedetto da Norcia (480-547) are very ancient. Pope Benedict XIV (1675-1758) conceived the design and with the Brief of 1742 he approved the medal granting indulgences to those who wear it with faith. On the right of the Medal, Saint Benedict holds in his right hand a cross raised towards the sky and in the left the open book of the holy Rule. On the altar there is a chalice from which a snake comes out to remember an episode that happened in San Benedetto: the Saint, with a sign of the cross, would have crushed the cup containing the poisoned wine given to him by attacking monks. Around the Medal, these words are coined: "Eius in obitu nostra presentia muniamur" ("We can be protected from his presence at the hour of our death"). On the reverse of the medal, there is the Cross of San Benedetto and the initials of the texts. These verses are ancient. They appear in a 1050th century manuscript as a testimony to the faith in the power of God and Saint Benedict. The devotion of the Medal or Cross of Saint Benedict became popular around 1054, after the miraculous recovery of the young Brunone, son of Count Ugo of Eginsheim, in Alsace. Brunone, according to some, was cured of a serious illness after he was offered the medal of San Benedetto. After recovery, he became a Benedictine monk and then Pope: it was San Leone IX, who died in 1581. Among the propagators there is also St. Vincent de Paul (1660-XNUMX).

The faithful have experienced its powerful efficacy through the intercession of Saint Benedict in the following cases:

against evil and other diabolical works;
to drive away ill-intentioned men from somewhere;
to cure and heal animals from the plague or oppressed by evil;
to protect people from the temptations, illusions and harassment of the devil especially those against chastity;
to obtain the conversion of some sinner, particularly when he is in danger of death;
to destroy or render the poison ineffective;
to ward off pestilence;
to restore health to those who suffer from stones, pain in the hips, bleeding, hemoptysis; to those who are bitten by contagious animals;
to obtain divine help from expectant mothers to avoid abortion;
to save from lightning and storms.

Saint Benedict medal prayer:

Cross of the Holy Father Benedict. Holy cross be my light and never be the devil my head. Go back, Satan; you will never persuade me of vain things; the drinks you offer me are bad; drink your poison yourself. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.