The medal is a reminder of Our Lady’s powerful intercession. “Mary and her Miraculous Medal are just as important today as they were back in 1830,” says the shrine in their 2020 magazine.

In the heart of New York City, nestled among the tall buildings of Times Square, sits a small tattoo shop with two 17-inch ...

“Have a medal struck after this model,” our Blessed Mother told Sister (now St.) Catherine Laboure on Nov. 27, 1830, when she appeared to her in the Daughters of Charity convent on Rue du Bac ...

In 1830, Our Lady appeared to St. Catherine Labouré in France and asked her to have a medal made according to the design she had been shown: the Virgin standing on a globe with outstretched hands ...

On the night of July 18, 1830, in a chapel on Rue du Bac in Paris, Catherine Labouré, a 24-year-old novice of the Daughters of Charity, had a vision of the Virgin Mary. They spoke familiarly for ...

They had no idea about the historic St. Mary’s of the Barrens Church, the historic log cabin sacristy, or the story of the Virgin Mary’s apparition to St. Catherine Laboure nearly 200 years ago.

Pope Francis blessed a statue of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal as it was to begin a pilgrimage throughout Italy to mark the 190th anniversary of Mary's apparitions to St. Catherine Laboure. It was ...

In 1976, renovations on the church were commissioned, including a major fund drive for the Shrine of the Miraculous Medal, where one of St. Catherine Laboure's original medallions would reside.

The Miraculous Medal got its name and reputation in 1832, when Paris was struck by a terrible cholera epidemic that caused at least 20,000 deaths. In June, the Daughters of Charity started ...

Rome Newsroom, Aug 14, 2024 / 04:00 am As World War II raged around him in Poland, St. Maximilian Kolbe fought for souls using a printing press and another “weapon” — the Miraculous Medal.