As World War II raged around him in Poland, St. Maximilian Kolbe fought for souls using a printing press and another “weapon” — the Miraculous Medal. “Even though a person be the worst ...

In January 1990, Regina Costello began visiting the Miraculous Medal Shrine in Philadelphia’s East Germantown neighborhood to pray a novena — a special prayer –to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Costello, ...

Initially, the medal had a special attraction for the poor, who came to call it the “Miraculous Medal”; eventually, countless others from every level of society began to wear it. Born in an ...

A statue of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal began Friday a pilgrimage to ... want to remind us that the Blessed Mother continues to invite men and women to approach the foot of the altar ...

The Miraculous Medal was revealed to St. Catherine Labouré, a French nun, in 1830. She stated that in July of that year, she felt called to the chapel, where she experienced that Our Lady was ...

Editor's note: This is part of an occasional series of stories and columns about Marian shrines and devotions and how Catholic sisters are connected with them. The entrance to the Chapel of Our ...