He canonized three saints linked with Marian devotion: St. Catherine Laboure, St. Louis Marie Montfort and St. Anthony Mary Claret. Even after his death, his numerous writings on Our Lady have been ...

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 ...

Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have recourse to thee.' On the reverse side was a capital M with the cross above and two hearts below. Catherine believed she was ordered to have this ...

The Virgin Immaculate appeared to Saint Catherine Labouré in the Rue du Bac, Paris, in 1830, and ordered her to have a medal struck of the apparition Immaculate Conception Miraculous Medal Mary, ...

Mary was beautifully robed ... 1876 and was beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1933 and canonized by Pope Pius XII in 1947. The Feast of St. Catherine Laboure is kept on November 28 each year, the day after ...

The Immaculate Conception of Mary is often confused with the virginal conception of Jesus. Today's feast was first approved by Pope Sixtus IV in 1476. In 1830 St Catherine Laboure experienced a vision ...