The Miraculous Medal (Our Lady healed a crippled girl in Paris)

A mother from Mexico took her little crippled daughter on a trip to Paris to visit the chapel where the apparitions of the Miraculous Medal took place in 1830. When they arrived at the chapel they saw a nun who was arranging flowers on the sanctuary. The mother asked her if it would be possible for her little daughter to touch the chair that our Lady had sat on while talking to Saint Catherine Labouré during one of the visions.  The nun said that it was not allowed.  Then she went into the back room to get some more flowers. The area where the chair is, is roped off to stop people from being able to touch the chair. The mother thought to herself, “I did not come all this way, just to look at the chair.” She told her little daughter to get down on the floor and work her way on her stomach under the rope and go up and quickly touch the chair and come back. To the mother’s distress the little girl went up to the chair and placed her head upon it and would not come back for quite a while despite her mother’s pleading. The mother was worried that the nun would come back and that they would get into trouble. Eventually the little girl came back, and the mother asked her why she had done this. Her reply was “I am sorry mummy but the lady told me to rest my head on her lap.”  They returned to Mexico on the plane. During the trip the mother noticed that her daughter’s physical condition was starting to improve. By the time that they had reached Mexico the child was fully healed.  She can now run and jump perfectly well. The Miraculous Medal prayer is: “O Mary conceived without sin pray for us, who have recourse to thee.”  Many favours are granted to those who wear the Miraculous Medal and who pray to Our Lady confidently trusting in her intercession.  These favours include healings; protection in danger, conversions, help to fight temptations and many other needs such as employment. The feast day of the Miraculous Medal is celebrated on November 27.

This story is from the book: Help from heaven (Answers to prayer). Click here to read the book. 

Healing of autism (Mary Help of Christians)

In the 1980’s an outdoor shrine of Mary Help of Christians was built and blessed in Sydney. Our daughter was three years of age at the time. She had severe autism and could not talk. The man who was in charge of the shrine was a friend of our family. He told us that he had a plan to hold regular gatherings at the shrine, where people would pray for specially chosen intentions. e.g. a person with cancer. He selected our daughter as the first person who would be prayed for. We willingly agreed. It was his hope that our daughter would receive a miracle healing. On the appointed day, a group of people gathered at the shrine. A Jesuit priest brought our daughter up to the microphone and introduced her to the people and explained to them that she had autism.  He asked them to join with him in saying the Rosary for her healing. At the end of the Rosary the priest asked the people to keep this intention in their prayers. There was no instant miracle that day, but in the years to come our daughter made spectacular progress.

 

Useful information 

The powerful intercession of the Holy Souls in Purgatory for their benefactors and ways to help them

 

Novena to St Philomena the Wonder Worker for the healing of autism