The Daughter of Charity, favored with the Vision of the MiraculousMedal in 1830.
Died December 31, 1876.
THE
MIRACULOUS MEDAL
—ITS—
Origin, History, Circulation, Results.
BY M. ALADEL, C.M.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH,
BY P.S.,
Graduate of St. Joseph's, Emmitsburg, Md.
ILLUSTRATED.
PHILADELPHIA:
H.L. KILNER & CO.,
PUBLISHERS.
COPYRIGHT, 1880, BY JOHN B. PIET.
DEDICATION.
TO
The Most Compassionate Virgin Mary,
mother of god, conceived without sin.
Oh Mary, conceived without sin, Virgin incomparable, august Mother ofJesus, thou who hast adopted us for thy children, and who hast given usso many proofs of thy maternal tenderness, deign to accept this littlebook, feeble token of our gratitude and love!
Oh! may it be instrumental in attracting and attaching inviolably tothee, the hearts of all who read it!
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
AUTHOR'S DECLARATION.
In conformity with the decree of Pope Urban VIII, we declare thatthe terms miracle, revelation, apparition and other expressions of asimilar nature here employed, have, in our intention, no other than apurely historical value, and that we submit unreservedly the entirecontents of this book to the judgment of the Apostolic See.
PREFACE OF THE AMERICAN PUBLISHER.
Since the hour when the Beloved Disciple took the Blessed Virgin tohis own, the followers of her Divine Son have always cherished areverential affection for her above all other creatures. They haveregarded her as the ideal of all that is true and pure and sweet andnoble in the Christian life, and they have honored her as the mostfavored of mortals, the greatest of saints, the masterpiece of theAlmighty. The peculiar veneration paid to her by the Apostles, wascaught up by the first Christians, who regarded her with awe becauseof her great dignity; and when she died, her memory was held inbenediction. But death could not sever her from those who, in theperson of St. John, had been given to her for her children. She stilllived for the Church. From the time when the faithful took refugein the Catacombs to the fifth century, when the Council of Ephesussolemnly sanctioned the homage paid to her as the Mother of God, herintercession was often invoked; and from that