O most powerful Virgin, mother of our savior, keep us close to you every moment of our lives. Obtain for us, your children, the grace of a happy death; so that, in union with you, we may enjoy the ...

pray for us." The reverse of the medal shows the capital letter M surrounded by twelve stars. There exists in the Miraculous Medal a double allusion to the beginning (snake) and the end of Scripture ...

(Miraculous Medal, 1830), and more recently with the Fatima message regarding the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Here are two prayers to honor and invoke Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the ...

In 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes in southern France, Our ... "The Lady was standing above the rose bush, in a position very similar to that shown on the Miraculous Medal.