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Posted: Nov 29 2010 at 8:41am | IP Logged Quote Maryan
On Saturday, my daughter Marion Jane was baptized.   

As we entered the Church for Mass, the Legion of Mary was passing out Miraculous Medals and said it was OLofMM's feast day. I have never heard of such a feast! Is it a real feast day... or is it "just" the day that Our Lady showed the Miraculous Medal to St. Catherine Laboure. Or was this a feast on the Old Calendar?.... I tried googling, but my postpartum mind couldn't figure this out!

I'm also interested because I asked my husband for a miraculous medal for Christmas months ago -- and am curious that she keeps "popping up."

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Posted: Nov 29 2010 at 10:39am | IP Logged Quote MicheleQ
It's a real feast --I have it listed in the planner this year in fact.

It's listed in my St. Andrew Daily Missal as a "Local feast kept in some places and religious congregations"

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Posted: Nov 29 2010 at 10:39am | IP Logged Quote MicheleQ
Maryan wrote:
On Saturday, my daughter Marion Jane was baptized.   


Congrats!!!

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Posted: Nov 29 2010 at 1:37pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
Wow! Your Marion has a Marian feast day for her baptismal date. When you mention the MM coming up in your life in many ways recently, I think that is so cool. Like Michele said it is a feast day, just not a universal feast day. There is a Marian feast day almost every day of the year in some location around the world - local or personal. This Marian Links web site is one I've looked at to see all the days that are remembered somewhere for Our Lady. They specifically say at the site: With a few exceptions for major events such as The Annunciation, the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and other churches leave it up to the individual's own discernment and judgment whether to celebrate a particular Marian feast ...

In the future if you want to celebrate Marion's baptismal date in a big way you can focus on the MM.

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Unit Study on St. Catherine Laboure and the Miraculous Medal

Picture to print and color

Miraculous Medal article from Catholic Culture and another from Domestic Church

OL of Miraculous Medal Coloring Story Book

The Miraculous Medal by Mary Fabyan Windeatt

Association of the Miraculous Medal


Anne's BEAUTIFUL Miraculous Medal mobile.



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Posted: Nov 29 2010 at 2:54pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Oh congratulations! You'll find as your child grows you'll learn more and more about this feast.

I had put up a nice Image of the Miraculous Medal which could be colored or cut out.

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Posted: Nov 29 2010 at 9:07pm | IP Logged Quote aussieannie
Special feast days for baptisms mean so much to me, I am so glad to hear that your little Marion was baptised on such a beautiful Marian feast day!

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Posted: Nov 30 2010 at 3:03pm | IP Logged Quote Maryan
Thanks ladies!! Michele, I can't believe I didn't know this was a "real" feast -- I totally thought the ladies were making it up. But I guess I've never been at a Mass that could or opted to celebrate it. Even on Saturday, the priest didn't mention anything at all!

Thanks for all the links.

My grandmother (Marion) always wore a miraculous medal (silver with blue enamel), so that was my impetus for asking for one for Christmas since I would have my own Marion -- I thought it would be fitting to be truly Marian.

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