The Manifestation of the Miraculous Medal / A Brief Account of Its History and of the Establishment of the Association

by Association of the Miraculous Medal

1. Sixty years for those who make half an hour's meditation.

2. Twenty years for visiting the sick, aiding them spiritually or corporally, or (if the visit be impossible) for reciting for the intention of the sick five Our Fathers, five Hail Marys and five Glorias.

3. Twenty years may be gained on the feasts of Our Lord, and on the feasts of the Saints of the Augustinian, Dominican, Carmelite, Trinitarian and Servite Orders.

4. Seven years and seven quarantines on the minor feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And when one goes to confession and Communion, when one accompanies the Viaticum, when one recites seven Our Fathers, seven Hail Marys and seven Glorias for the sick who received holy Communion. The same indulgences is gained on all the feasts to which a plenary indulgence is attached by a visit to a church containing an altar dedicated to our blessed Mother. Confession and Communion are not prescribed for this indulgence. The same, for the recitation of the "Hail, Holy Queen," at vespers, when one prays for the needs of the Church. The same, daily from Septuagesima to Palm Sunday on condition that one receive Holy Communion and recite seven Our Fathers, seven Hail Marys and seven Glorias for the needs of the Church. The same on the feasts of the Invention and Exaltation of the Holy Cross, if an alms be given. The same on three Fridays of each month by receiving Holy Communion. The same on the nine days of novena before Christmas. The same on every Monday, if one visit the Blessed Sacrament.

5. Five years and five quarantines daily, if a visit be made to any church and five Our Fathers, five Hail Marys and five Glorias be said. An indulgence of three hundred days daily during the Octave of Pentecost, two hundred days each time that one is present at a sermon, sixty days for each pious work, fifty days for piously invoking the holy names of Jesus and Mary, or when one recites an Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Gloria in any church for the living and the dead.

6. Mass said at any altar for a deceased person who had been rightly enrolled in and wore the Miraculous Medal enjoys the spiritual advantage of a Mass said at a privileged altar.

(Vide Rescripta Authentica S. Cong. Ind., p. 574-579.)

THE ASSOCIATION ESTABLISHED IN THE WESTERN PROVINCE OF THE VINCENTIANS

As may be seen from the Statutes, the object of the Association is the personal sanctification of its members and the sanctification of the neighbor by means of the medal. In order to cooperate in this holy and noble work, the Vincentians, or the Priests of the Congregation of the Mission, with the approval of the Most Reverend Archbishop of St. Louis, have established this Association at their Central House in the Western Province.

The only condition necessary to become a member of the Association is "to wear the medal suspended from the neck, on the breast. The medal must be blessed and imposed by a priest delegated to do so according to the rite approved by Leo XIII." This faculty will be granted to any priest for the asking. Application should be made to the Reverend Visitor, or the Reverend Director of the Association, St. Mary's Seminary, Perryville, Mo. In the Eastern Province of the United States, address Reverend Visitor, or Reverend Director of the Association, St. Vincent's Seminary, Germantown, Pa.