Let's go to Helene now in Arizona. Good morning, Helene.

Yeah, hi, Patrick. I have a question.

What makes the miraculous medal so miraculous?

What has been done to it?

I heard of someone who was transported into the presence of Mary and Jesus.

Was this a real vision or not? Is this a rare result?

Okay. So perhaps there you're thinking about sister Catherine Labore, who was the religious

sister at Rue-de-Bach, the convent at Rue-de-Bach in Paris, when our lady appeared, and she was

awoken by an angel, and she was told, Our Lady is waiting for you in the chapel. Now, I've been there

a couple of times, and you can actually see the chair where our lady was seated in the middle of the night, and the angel

brought her there into the chapel, and so she had a conversation with our lady. And the result of

these conversations was that she wanted a metal struck that would have the image of her on the front

and then I won't describe the whole miraculous metal to you but each of the components had a

significance and she said if people wear this and I think the recommendation was wired on a chain

around your neck doesn't have to be that way but that was the recommendation that this would be a sign of the person's devotion to our lady and love for God,

and it would entail a way of asking for graces that are available to us that we don't get because we don't ask for them.

And so the upshot of it is that that particular religious sister had this experience in this

private revelation with our lady.

And when the medal was struck, indeed, there are countless stories of conversion, in some

cases miraculous, dramatic conversions of people who in some way had a connection

with the miraculous metal. And the stories are now too numerous. This is going back a couple

hundred years now. The stories are too numerous to even have a file on them. There's just so many

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