#12170 Why Are There Twelve Stars on the Miraculous Medal? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What’s the meaning behind the twelve stars on the Miraculous Medal? We explore the biblical symbolism connected to Mary, Revelation, and the Church, along with insights into papal elections, Christ in the Old Testament, and explaining Catholic beliefs to Mormons.

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Questions Covered:

04:19 – Why are there twelve stars on the Miraculous Medal?
10:26 – Why would the teaching that the dead donor rule not apply to the unborn?
18:11 – Who would elect the Pope if all the Cardinals died?
28:54 – How can I explain Psalm 82:6 in a Trinitarian way to a Mormon friend who believes it relates to them becoming gods?
44:33 – Can Revelation 21:12 be applied to the miraculous medal crown since it describes the image?
51:10 – Can the God that walked with Adam and Eve or came to visit Abraham be considered the pre-incarnate Jesus based on Colossians 1:15?

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0:38.1	Friday afternoon, no evening afternoon, afternoon, evening. I don't know, what do you think,
0:44.2	Jimmy? Depends on where you are. That's true. Or morning if you're in Australia, right? Yeah.
0:48.8	Yeah, fair enough. All right. Well, there are a few lines up and if you want to talk to jimmy today we have a whole hour so uh let's go
0:54.3	8883-1-8-7-884 i'll say it a little more slow for those uh for people like me who probably
1:01.0	need it slower 888 3187884 uh so we talked about jimmy aiken's mysterious world in the
1:08.9	first hour so let me ask you about the Jimmy
1:11.0	Aiken podcast. What's going on, well, a Monday? Oh, sure. Well, first, though, I wanted to
1:15.8	compliment you on saying the phone number at a human speed and clearly enunciated it.
1:20.7	Mary Poppins would be proud. Oh, thank you. That's all I need. That's all I need. I can die happy. Now, if you say supercalifragilistic XB. Aladocious, loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, though.
1:33.2	I don't even know if I could say the word, so I'm not even going to...
1:36.3	So coming up on the Jimmy Aiken podcast this coming Monday, I have a look at a subject that I primarily deal with how Jewish people reckoned the start and the end of the day.
1:57.3	You often hear that Jewish people and the Jewish Reckoning that the day begins at sunset,
2:05.9	and then so you have evening first and then morning.
2:10.2	And there's an element of truth to that, but it's actually more complicated than that.
2:15.1	And so I'm going to talk about the different practices that different
2:19.5	groups of Jews have used throughout history regarding and reckoning the day. And one of the reasons
2:25.4	I'm talking about that is because you often hear that the ability to go to a vigil mass on Saturday evening is because the Jewish day begins at sunset.
2:41.1	And so it's like if you go to a vigil mass on Saturday evening, we're kind of following an ancient Jewish practice.
2:47.9	But they're, and I'm going to tell you the real story about that and how how uh the custom of
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