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
These details are confirmed by two letters of Madame and Mademoiselle
Joubert, by the testimony of the Superior of the Daughters of Charity
of Limoges, and that of M. Dumonteil, a lawyer and friend of the family.
CONVERSIONS AND CURES WROUGHT IN SWITZERLAND.
Letter from Sister Boubat, Superioress of the Daughters of Charity in
Chesne:
"_February 12, 1835._
"I have not great miracles to recount to-day, but the facts I give
are certainly very striking traits of protection. However, I shall
tell them just as they are, and let you judge of them for yourself.
Those of which I was not an eye-witness have been told me by very
reliable parties who were.
"1st. A woman who had been sick a long time, and given up by the
doctors, received, one evening, the Miraculous Medal, and was
restored to her usual health that night; feeling perfectly well,
she said to her husband next morning that she would get up and
prepare breakfast. He treated this as nonsense, and when she really
did arise, his astonishment was great, and beyond all bounds when
he found that her health was fully restored.
"2d. In the same village, a young mother had two children, one six
the other eight years old. The latter was attacked by a violent
malady, described to me as a convulsion, and died in a few days.
The younger had a similar attack, and seemed on the verge of death.
The poor mother was in the depths of grief, when some one thought
of offering her a medal. She received it as a treasure. It was
evening; she put it on the dying child, who soon fell asleep, and
slept soundly the whole night. In the morning he awoke perfectly
cured! This good woman afterwards came to me to get medals for
herself and some others. Oh! I wish you could have seen her as she
wept for joy whilst expressing to me, with all simplicity, the
transports of her soul! Never will I forget it, so deep was the
impression it made upon me.
"3d. A child five years old had been racked for several months by a
fever, which resisted all efforts to check it. One day, he was in
his grandmother's arms when the paroxysm began. This woman, full of
faith, applied the medal; the child soon grew better, and the fever
never troubled him again.
"The attending physician was a relation; on seeing him after this,
the child ran towards him, exclaiming with all the animation and
artlessness of his age: 'I am cured, but it was not you who cured
me, it was the medal.' He repeats these words nearly every time he
sees the doctor.
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