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Saint Catherine Labouré

Saw the Virgin in 1830 and was asked to have the Miraculous Medal struck

Western calendar
31 December
Orthodox calendar
Not kept

Catherine Labouré came from a large family of Burgundy farmers and entered the Daughters of Charity in Paris in 1830, and in that same year the Virgin Mary appeared to her three times at the community's mother-house. On 27 November she saw Mary standing on a globe with rays of light streaming from her fingers, framed by the words "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee", and she was told to have a medal struck after what she had seen. As the Miraculous Medal spread, Sister Catherine spent her life caring for the elderly at the hospice of Reuilly, and she died there in 1876.

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