This deepened interest in the vast new country. The apparition of Mary immaculate to St. Catherine Laboure in 1830 at Paris also advanced the devotion. And the solemn definition in 1854 was the ...

St. John brought people ... the "Miraculous Medal" made to Catherine Labouré in 1830, and the establishment of a society dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at the Church of Our Lady ...