The Lady's Powerful Medal - A look on the devotion to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in the Philippines
Apart from the Rosary, the Brown Scapular of the Carmelite Order, the Black Cincture of Our Lady of Consolation and the White Scapular of Our Lady of Mercy, one of the most popular Marian sacramental in the Catholic Church is the Medal of the Immaculate Conception, more popularly known as the "Miraculous Medal". The devotion to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal played a significant role in the the history of the Church that helped shaped the current landscape of Marian devotion in the world. Now as we celebrate the 190th anniversary of the revelation of the Miraculous Medal to St. Catherine Laboure, a sister of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, let us now have a look back on the history and the development of the devotion to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and how it influenced the history of the Church and also in our country's culture. A tribulation in France The understand the context of the apparitions of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, we should loo