The Miraculous Medal: Its Origin, History, Circulation, ResultsAladel, Jean-Marie
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The Miraculous Medal: Its Origin, History, Circulation, Results
Aladel, Jean-Marie
Labouré, Catherine, Saint, 1806-1876; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Miraculous Medal
She never ceases to thank God and Mary; and
she told the Sister that, from the moment the medal was on her
neck, she knew neither peace nor rest till she had returned to
her duties, so great are the power and love of that Virgin who
is the sovereign Terror of demons.
CONVERSION OF A SCANDALOUS SINNER.
_Moirans, 1877._
The Superioress of the Sisters of Charity at Moirans, relates as
follows a very consoling conversion, redounding to the glory of Mary
Immaculate:
"The most important manufacturer of our village, who employed
from four to five hundred men and women, has just died, and
contrary to all expectations, his death was penitent and
consoling. He had been impious and immoral, and the profligate
characters in his workshops were a curse to the surrounding
country. His rudeness was such, that everybody trembled before
him. His wife and two daughters, pious Christians, silently
bewailed his misconduct; and as for myself, I had barely
sufficient acquaintance with him to render justifiable my
calling upon him in any urgent need.
"One morning I received a message in great haste; this person
was very sick and wished to see me. I went at once, but the
disease was of so serious a character and its progress so
rapid, that I saw the poor man on the verge of the grave ere
I could find a means of turning his thoughts to eternity.
I had told his wife and daughters to give him a medal of
the Immaculate Conception, but he refused to accept it, and
we were reduced to the necessity of stealthily putting it
under his pillow. On the third day, as I was about to leave,
after rendering him all the care and attention in my power,
he wished, in the effusion of his gratitude, to shake hands
with me. I profited by the opportunity to tell him how much
pleasure he could give me by consenting to receive the curé,
who had just come to see him. He made a sign in the affirmative
and with a smile that very rarely parted his lips. We went
out of the room, leaving him alone with the priest, whom he
had welcomed cordially. In half an hour the latter returned
blessing God, for the sick man had made his confession. He
now consented to wear the medal, and that evening he received
Extreme Unction, but not the Holy Viaticum, as he had spells
of suffocation. I asked his wife to let his employees see him,
that they might be edified at their patron's conduct. The
request was granted, but not many came, as the workshops were
closed at this hour; those who did come, prayed a few minutes
beside him. Next morning his family was greatly rejoiced at his
apparent physical improvement, but their hopes were deceived,
and very soon his last agony began. He was recommended to
the prayers of the parish; the whole village manifested a
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