Association of the Miraculous Medal

“ During her novitiate she received many supernatural favors—the most remarkable of which was the Manifestation of the Miraculous Medal.
In the month of January, 1831, Sister Catherine received the holy habit of a Daughter of Charity; and she was then sent to the hospital of Enghien in the faubourg Saint Antoine of Paris. For forty-six years she labored there in the most humble duties, ever faithful to the rules and leading a life hidden with Christ in God. She always manifested a great love for the poor and a wonderful devotion to our Blessed Mother. ”

“ Seven years and seven quarantines on the minor feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And when one goes to confession and Communion, when one accompanies the Viaticum, when one recites seven Our Fathers, seven Hail Marys and seven Glorias for the sick who received holy Communion. The same indulgences is gained on all the feasts to which a plenary indulgence is attached by a visit to a church containing an altar dedicated to our blessed Mother. ”

“ She was Zoe Laboure, called in community life Sister Catherine. This saintly child of God was born on May 2, 1806, at Fain-les-Moutiers, a village of the Cote-d'Or, in France.
Zoe had not reached her eighth year when death took her pious mother, and henceforth this peasant child felt that Mary, the Consoler of the Afflicted, would be her only Mother. ”

“ Partial Indulgences.
1. Sixty years for those who make half an hour's meditation.
2. Twenty years for visiting the sick, aiding them spiritually or corporally, or (if the visit be impossible) for reciting for the intention of the sick five Our Fathers, five Hail Marys and five Glorias.
3. Twenty years may be gained on the feasts of Our Lord, and on the feasts of the Saints of the Augustinian, Dominican, Carmelite, Trinitarian and Servite Orders. ”

“ In that instant he understood all, and rose a changed man. He had entered the church a devotee of Judaism he left it an humble follower of Him who came to save the lost sheep of the house of Israel. This apparition took place on January 20, 1842. Several years later Ratisbonne became a priest and devoted his life to the conversion of his former compatriots in Palestine.
THE ASSOCIATION OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL
The center of this Association is established at the Mother-House of the Daughters of Charity, Paris. ”