| St. Caterine Laboure and the Miraculous Medal Contributor(s): Powers Waters, Alma (Author) |
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ISBN: 089870765X ISBN-13: 9780898707656 Publisher: Ignatius Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2000 Annotation: For more than a hundred and fifty years the Miraculous Medal has been known and worn by Catholics throughout the world. It has been used and promoted by great saints and Popes as a most powerful sacramental, Less well known is the story of the French Sister to whom the Blessed Virgin manifested the Medal in 1830. This Vision Book for 9 - 16 year olds tells the story of Catherine Laboure, a Burgundy farm girl who, after a prophetic dream of St. Vincent de Paul, became a Sister of Charity in Paris and later in Enghien, where she cooked and mended and cared for the inmates of a home for elderly men. To this obscure Sister the Blessed Virgin appeared, made prophecies, and commissioned the making of the Medal which soon came to be known as "miraculous" because of the favors wrought. St. Catherine Laboure lived a life of prayer and service to the poor, and was canonized in 1947. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Catholic |
| Dewey: 282.092 |
| LCCN: 99075402 |
| Series: Vision Books |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.41 lbs) 140 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Catholic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For more than a hundred and fifty years the Miraculous Medal has been known and worn by Catholics throughout the world. It has been used and promoted by great saints and Popes as a most powerful sacramental. Less well known is the story of the French Sister to whom the Blessed Virgin manifested the Medal in 1830. This Vision Book for 9 - 16 year olds tells the story of Catherine LabourE, a Burgundy farm girl who, after a prophetic dream of St. Vincent de Paul, became a Sister of Charity in Paris and later in Enghien, where she cooked and mended and cared for the inmates of a home for elderly men. To this obscure Sister the Blessed Virgin appeared, made prophecies, and commissioned the making of the Medal which soon came to be known as "miraculous" because of the favors wrought. St. Catherine LabourE lived a life of prayer and service to the poor, and was canonized in 1947. Illustrated |