Posted on 07/07/2008 2:50:51 PM PDT by Salvation
On the night of 18 July, 1830, a "child" awakened Sr. Catherine Labouré (seen above) in her Daughters of Charity convent at 140 Rue du Bac, Paris, telling her to go to the convent's chapel where Mary awaited her. There Mary told her: God wishes to charge you with a mission. You will be contradicted, but do not fear; you will have the grace. Tell your spiritual director all that passes within you. Times are evil in France and in the world. Come to the foot of the altar. Graces will be shed on all, great and little, especially upon those who seek them. Another community of sisters will join the Rue du Bac community. The community will become large; you will have the protection of God and Saint Vincent; I will always have my eyes upon you. Later that year, on 27 November, Catherine saw another vision of Mary. She describes her like this: Her height was medium and her countenance, indescribably beautiful. She was dressed in a robe the color of the dawn, high-necked, with plain sleeves. Her head was covered with a white veil, which floated over Her shoulders down to her feet. Her feet rested upon a globe, or rather one half of a globe, for that was all that could be seen. Her hands which were on a level with her waist, held in an easy manner another globe, a figure of the world. Her eyes were raised to Heaven, and her countenance beamed with light as She offered the globe to Our Lord. Mary told her that the globe represented the whole world, especially France, a country whose faithful had recently suffered horrible persecutions in the Revolution's Terrors and was still going through "Enlightenment" perfidy.
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My pleasure. Another person had a thread about this subject and replies showed that no knowledge about it was there. So...........
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Thank you. My husband gave me a Miraculous Medal as a gift this weekend. I knew something about its history, but am glad to learn more.
(Remember, we are converts and a lot of things we are learning on the fly.)
Thanks for posting this!
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"If you can't say anything nice..."
shrug.
I recommend the book “Forget Not Love,” about St. Maximilian Kolbe. Ignatius Press sells it; the author is ... somebody French :-), the book’s not on the shelves in this room.
I wear the Miraculous Medal and Sacred Heart medal on a safety pin in my clothing, as my life does not permit wearing necklaces very often. I did put my silver medal on a chain on for Mass today, because we left the baby at home with a sister.
We refer to them as Mary's silver bullet :) They open hearts.
**They open hearts.**
Amen!
I know of at least one lady who converted because a friend gave her a Miraculous Medal and asked her to wear it, which she did.
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