Babe Ruth’s Catholic Conversion Story and the Little-Known Sacramental He Took to His Grave
‘I asked them to pin the Miraculous Medal to my pajama coat. I’ve worn the medal constantly ever since. I’ll wear it to my grave.’
‘I asked them to pin the Miraculous Medal to my pajama coat. I’ve worn the medal constantly ever since. I’ll wear it to my grave.’
When the cynical Alphonse Ratisbonne accepted a dare to wear a Miraculous Medal, he didn’t expect to meet the Blessed Mother herself.
The Miraculous Medal and Fatima show how heaven draws us to the Two Hearts.
The Miraculous Medal reminds us that Mary’s loving care is always there, even in life’s darkest moments.
ROSARY & ART: On the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception this year, let us focus on two important Marian sacramentals: the Miraculous Medal and the Brown Scapular.
The Virgin promised the nun that she would give abundant graces to those who wore the medal. The devotion spread throughout the world and made its way to Brazil.
Marian church has long drawn souls closer to Christ and Our Lady.
Our Lady’s intercession is credited with ending a prolonged period of drought in the 1930s in Monte Sião, Brazil.
To share the medal with friends, family and strangers is to become a champion of Christ in the most humbling way.
In the wake of Saturday’s feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, we’re reminded of the strong parallels connecting the times of St. Catherine Labouré and our own.
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