1. A fall from the 2nd floor, without a scratch
Mrs. Raymond living at 70 Rue Mouffetard, stood at the window of her room, on the 2nd floor, with one of her children of only twenty-two months of age.
Suddenly, she faints, falls backwards in the apartment and the child falls on the cobblestones outside. Naturally, the child would have to be shattered by such a fall, but no. Since his pious parents had listened to the letter by the Archbishop on the occasion of the consecration of the Church of Our Lady of Loreto, in which the faithful are recommended to wear the miraculous medal, they had to get it and have it worn by their little child. The Immaculata did not leavethis attentive piety unrewarded.
The poor little creature is picked up, examined, and not even the slightest bruise is found on its body. As the state of the mother, who was several months pregnant and who did not recover from her fainting, was cause for concern, several doctors were called who also examined the child and who could not help admitting that there was a miracle there.
However, they had apply to him a few leeches as a precaution, and also a poultice to one knee where he appeared to experience a tiny bit of pain. The child was eating a brief moment before the terrible fall but this did not cause him the slightest vomiting and he immediately took all the little sweets that we hastened to offer him.
Everyone was speaking of a miracle and this little innocent seemed to be proclaiming it himself by kissing his medal which he keeps pressing to his lips, especially when we talk about it in front of him. The mother has had no accidents and is doing very well. She continues to thank the Immaculata for the double protection that she acknowledges she owes to the medal.
2. A devastating fire
A violent fire had broken out in the city of Salonica. The fire soon arrives in front of the sisters’ house, that is to say that the buildings opposite, on the other side of the street, barely two meters away, are reached and devoured by the flames that the wind continues to spread and expand. Already, the roof of the sisters’ house and that of the neighbouring house are covered with thick smoke;
I immediately threw several miraculous medals and having no help to hope for from anyone since the noise of the powder still exploding nearby made everyone flee, I withdrew, it was useless to expose myself any longer. Besides, I had to save a half-drunk Catholic who persisted in wanting to stay near the fire. Shortly after, I return to watch the sad spectacle of our houses on fire, which I will no doubt find half burnt. I approach, and a young man stops me on the way and says to me: ”Sir, your property is saved, even the house of the sisters is not in danger.” ;
I arrive at the place and am convinced by my own eyes that he was telling the truth. It would be difficult for me to depict what passed in my heart then. I sent to inform our dear sisters who could not believe in such a marvel any more than I could. Suffice it to say that everyone in Salonica agrees as to the miraculous nature of what has come to pass. (Letter from Mr. Turok, July 16th, 1836.)
3. War
In 1862, a sister at the New Orleans hospital gave a Miraculous Medal to one of the nurses who was about to leave for the army, recommending that he always wear it. Some time later, he returned with a head injury. Seeing the sister, he exclaimed: ‘‘Dear Sister, here is the Medal you gave me, it saved my life! When we were in battle, the cord by which it
hung around my neck broke, and as the enemy’s cannons fired at us, I attached it to a button on my uniform. All my companions fell dead beside me and I escaped with this little scratch.”
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