The Miraculous Medal

America Needs Fatima, 2017. Trade paperback. (ISBN 9781877905407) Good copy, good wrappers. Fascinating illutrations of antique and contemporary photographs, and period drawings and paintings, and statues and maps. In 1839, during the apparitions in the chapel on Rue du Bac in Paris, the Holy Virgin presented the Miraculous Medal to Saint Catherine Laboure: "Everyone who wears it, when it is blessed, will receive great graces especially if they wear it around their neck. Graces will be abundant for the who wear it in confidence." At the time of Saint Catherine Laboure's death, the distribution of the medal in the world had surpassed the one billion mark. The innumerable conversions, cures and cases of extraordinary protection, quickly led to its being called the "Miraculous Medal." Wearing and disseminating the Miraculous Medal means placing oneself under the protection of the Most Holy Virgin. It means placing oneself under the sign of the Immaculate and taking a stand in the face of the troubles and indifference affection the modern world. "The whole world will be overwhelmed by misfortunes of all kinds...All will seem lost, but I shall be with you," the Holy Virgin promised Saint Catherine, who repeated this prophesy until the end of her life. Religion.