CARMELITE NUNS RARE LOURDES PILGRIMAGE PETITE STERLING CATHOLIC MIRACULOUS MEDAL

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Please double click the picture as there are many other pictures behind it that will appear. These are devotional medals from Convents we work with as well as donor collector estates that have gifted their medals to us to help the convents we work with. Here from the estate of Bertha, (the founder of Church-Woman Antiques) is one of her medals from her Visit to the Lourdes Shrine in the 1970's. These medals were each blessed at the shrine by the resident priest before they made the long trip back from France. We recently found them along with her provenance notes written over 40 years ago. This medal is 7/8 inch long and weighs 3 grams sterling. This sale will help a Carmelite community of nuns in South America in their work of feeding the poor.
Here is the story of the Catholic Miraculous Medal; and why Bertha decided to bring these medals with her to Lourdes. On 27 November 1830 Saint Catherine reported that the Blessed Mother appeared to her during evening meditations. She displayed herself inside an oval frame, standing upon a globe. She wore many rings set with gems that shone rays of light over the globe. Around the margin of the frame appeared the words Ô Marie, conçue sans péché, priez pour nous qui avons recours à vous ("O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee"). As Catherine watched, the frame seemed to rotate, showing a circle of twelve stars, a large letter M surmounted by a cross, and the stylized Sacred Heart of Jesus crowned with thorns and Immaculate Heart of Mary pierced with a sword. Asked why some of the gems did not shed light, Mary reportedly replied, "Those are the graces for which people forget to ask." Sister Catherine then heard the Virgin Mary ask her to take these images to her father confessor, telling him that they should be put on medallions, and saying "All who wear them will receive great graces."
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