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Catherine Labouré, DC (May 2, 1806 – December 31, 1876) was a French member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and a Marian visionary. She is believed to have relayed the request from the Blessed Virgin Mary to create the Miraculous Medal , now worn by millions of people around the world.
Catherine Labouré, DC (May 2, 1806 – December 31, 1876) was a French member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and a Marian visionary. She is believed to have relayed the request from the Blessed Virgin Mary to create the Miraculous Medal , now worn by millions of people around the world.
In 1927, Fr. Joseph Skelly, CM, commissioned the creation of Mary's Central Shrine within the chapel to promote devotion to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, a title of the Virgin Mary originating with her apparitions to Saint Catherine Labouré in Paris in 1830. [1]
The Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal is located in Rue du Bac, Paris. The Miraculous Medal (French: Médaille miraculeuse), also known as the Medal of Our Lady of Graces, is a devotional medal, the design of which was originated by Catherine Labouré following her apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary [2] in the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal of Paris, France.
He also served as the founding pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Marysville (1954–1964), Vicar for Religious in the Harrisburg Diocese (1958–1970), and pastor of St. Catherine Laboure Church in Harrisburg (1964–1968). He also led the effort to establish Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, which opened in 1963.
LeBar was ordained in 1962. He was assigned as chaplain to Hudson Valley Psychiatric Center in 1982 and served until his retirement there in 2005. Previously, he was a parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Poughkeepsie from 1980 to 1982; St. Stanislaus, Pleasant Valley from 1979 to 1980; St. Catherine Laboure, Lake Katrine from 1973 to 1979 and from 1965 to 1967; St. Joseph's, Kingston ...
The Miraculous Medal.Saint Catherine Labouré is interred at 140 rue de Bac, one of the places where the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared to her.. The Rue du Bac (French pronunciation: [ʁy dy bak]) is a street in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Catherine of the Wheel, or Great Martyr Saint Catherine (4th century) Catherine of Vadstena (c. 1332–1381), Swedish nun and author; Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), TOSD Italian philosopher, theologian, doctor of the church and patron saint of Italy; Catherine of Bologna (1413–1463), OSC Italian nun and artist