MODERN MIRACLES OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL

A few years ago, I decided firmly to embrace wearing Our Lady’s Miraculous Medal every day. I’d gotten a large oval one as a birthday gift from my friend Danny Risdon and felt a calling to keep it on me.

This meant that my other necklaces were put to one side. I’ve always had something of a small obsession with neck jewelry. I broke school rules by my strands of many beads and I wore a choker with feathers as a twenty something. Okay, sometimes now I wear both a fashion necklace and Miraculous Medal, but I always keep the latter dangling right over my heart.



Such was my lack of faith in Our Lady’s incomparable intercessory powers I didn’t think some of what has happened to me could come to pass. The first prevented my mugging. I was in a smart area, going about my business, when a petite woman approached me, seemingly all smiles and friendly. But then she viciously lunged in, grabbed my Miraculous Medal, but as soon as it touched her fingers, she had to drop it like a red-hot poker. I made my escape, knowing that the panic I felt was nothing to being robbed. Oh, thank you, Our Lady!

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