I said Virgin of the Miraculous Medal in Sterling Silver outlet 925 handmade

Front measures: 5 x 4 cm.
Medal alone: 4 x 2 cm high.

Approximate weight: 16gr

It is delivered with long steel chain of choice.

Miraculous Medal, Virgin of the Miraculous Medal or Medal of the Immaculate Conception, is a medal that according to history, was designed according to the indications of the Virgin Mary, who appeared for the second time to Saint Catherine Labouré on November 27, 1830; in this apparition the image of the virgin was inside an oval frame, standing on a balloon and stepping on a snake, dressed in white and carried various gems that shone.
Around the frame you could see the phrase: O Mary, without sin conceived, pray for us who turned to you, but in French and as Sister Catherine approached, there was a circle made with 12 stars a large letter M under a cross, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary; these images were to be taken to his confessing father, by orders of the virgin and had to be printed on a medal.

After two years of research, Father Confessor Alabel took the images that Sister Catherine had given to the Archbishop of Paris, who decided to carry out a canonical investigation that gave credence to the apparitions of the Virgin and the testimony of Saint Catherine, approving the creation of the medals with the indications; the context under which the virgin appeared in France, was when the country was suffering from the cholera epidemic and according to the story the virgin said that the sphere represented the whole world but especially France.
In the year of 1832 began to distribute the first medals to which miraculous cures were attributed that gave the name of Miraculous Medal and by the year of 1876, the year in which the religious died, about one million medals had been distributed; in the place where the virgin was first seen there is a chapel where the incorrupt remains of Santa Catalina are exposed.

On the front of the medal he appreciates the Virgin Mary standing on the sphere and stepping on a serpent proclaiming that Satan and all his supporters have no power in front of her and according to the Association of the Miraculous Medal: The reference to Mary conceived without sin manifests the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary—not to be confused with the virgin birth of Jesus and referring to Mary. sinless, "full of grace" and "blessed among all women."

At the back of the medal are the twelve stars that surround the letter M from which a cross comes out and below there are two hearts, one surrounded by thorns symbolizing the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another with a sword in the middle that refers to the Immaculate Heart of Mary; the twelve stars are related to the 12 apostles who accompanied Christ, while the cross symbolizes Jesus.

When the Virgin Mary indicated to St. Catherine that the images seen should be placed on a medal, she said to her: Those who wear it will receive great graces, especially if they wear it around their necks; from then on the devotion to the medal grew that should not be used as a lucky charm but as a testimony of faith that was used to a large extent by Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Pope John Paul II, who carried a small variant of the back of the medal as a coat of arms, the Marian cross, consisting of a flat cross outlet with an M under the far right.