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Mary's Agency in the Church--This Agency always manifest, seems to have disappeared during the Eighteenth and at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century--Mary reappears in 1830--Motives and Importance of this Apparition--The Immaculate Conception. 42
"Bless the God of heaven," said the angel to Tobias and his son; "chant His praises among all mankind for the blessings with which He has loaded you, for it is good to conceal t...
9. CHAPTER IX.First Apparition of the Blessed Virgin to Sister Catherine Labouré, Daughter of Charity, during the night of July 18th, 1830. After a picture painted according to Sister Catheri...
16. CHAPTER VIII.The wars which have taken place since the year 1854, the epoch of the definition of the Immaculate Conception, have presented a spectacle to which the world was unaccustomed. No...
15. CHAPTER VII.In her first manifestation to Sister Catherine, July 19, 1830, the Immaculate Virgin announced the disasters which threatened France; grief was depicted upon her countenance, te...
11. CHAPTER III.FIRST APPARITION: THE ANGEL CONDUCTS THE SISTER TO THE CHAPEL; MARY CONVERSES WITH HER--SECOND APPARITION: MARY UPON A GLOBE, HER HANDS EMITTING RAYS OF LIGHT, SYMBOLIC OF GRACE...
17. CHAPTER IX.The definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, has, in our age, brought to its climax, devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Divine Providence employed twenty-four years in...
13. CHAPTER V.The principal end of the Blessed Virgin's apparition to Sister Catherine was to develop among the faithful, devotion to the Immaculate Conception; and the medal was the instrume...
12. CHAPTER IV.We have already seen with what mistrust M. Aladel received Sister Catherine's communications, and how he hesitated to assume the mission proposed to him. At last, after grave re...
10. CHAPTER II.Devotion to the most Blessed Virgin is as ancient as Christianity, and we find traces of it from the very origin of the Church, among all nations who accepted the Gospel. During...
6. CHAPTER VI.Extraordinary Graces obtained by means of the Miraculous Medal--Graces obtained from 1832 to 1835--During the year 1835, in France, Switzerland, Savoy, Turkey--From 1836 to 1838...
3. CHAPTER III.Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin to Sister Catherine--First Apparition: An Angel Conducts the Sister to the Chapel--Mary Converses with Her--Second Apparition: Mary standing up...
2. CHAPTER II.Mary's Agency in the Church--This Agency always manifest, seems to have disappeared during the Eighteenth and at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century--Mary reappears in 1830-...
7. CHAPTER VII.1. CHAPTER I.8. CHAPTER VIII.4. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER V.