The Miraculous Medal was revealed to St. Catherine Labouré, a French nun, in 1830. She stated that in July of that year, she felt called to the chapel, where she experienced that Our Lady was charging ...

What Is the Brown Scapular? The Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is one of the most beloved sacramentals in the Catholic Church. Often called simply “the scapular,” because it is the oldest ...

For the future all the faithful already inscribed or who shall be inscribed in one or other of the real Scapulars approved by the Holy See (excepting those which are proper to the Third Orders) by ...

A blessed medal, worn or carried on the person, instead of one or more of the small scapulars. It was authorized as a substitute by St. Pius X in 1910. It bears on one side a representation of the ...