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

IMPRIMI POTEST (Die 18, Junii 1918) THOMAS FINNEY, C. M. Visitator Prov. Occidentalis. NIHIL OBSTAT S. Ludovici, die 20 Junii 1918. F. G. HOLWECK, Censor Theol. IMPRIMATUR S. Ludovici, die 21 Junii 1918. JOANNES JOSEPHUS, Archiepiscopus S. Ludovici.

His Grace, the Most Reverend Archbishop of St. Louis, in a letter to the Director, has heartily approved of the establishment of the Association of the Miraculous Medal at St. Mary's Seminary, Perryville, Mo.

MISSOURIAN PRINTING & STY CO., CAPE GIRARDEAU

THE ASSOCIATION
OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL
IN HONOR OF
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

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The object of this Association is to spread and to increase devotion to Mary under the title of her Immaculate Conception; and one of the most efficacious means for the accomplishment of this aim is the Medal known as Miraculous.

A brief account of the supernatural origin of this medal and of the statutes of the Association will prove of interest and help to all devout clients of our Blessed Mother.

SISTER CATHERINE

The weak and lowly does God choose to confound the strong and worldly-wise, and so in His inscrutable designs, when He would reveal to the Church the marvelous blessings of the Miraculous Medal, He chose for this great mission an humble Daughter of Charity. She was Zoe Laboure, called in community life Sister Catherine. This saintly child of God was born on May 2, 1806, at Fain-les-Moutiers, a village of the Cote-d'Or, in France.

Zoe had not reached her eighth year when death took her pious mother, and henceforth this peasant child felt that Mary, the Consoler of the Afflicted, would be her only Mother.