Saint Catherine Labouré, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During
the 1848 Revolution in Paris, in March of that year, Catherine Labouré,
a sister in the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity, continued to
run the Picpus Hospital in Paris (where she also resided) almost
single-handedly, taking care of the poor after most of the sisters had
been forced to flee.
She
distributed the Miraculous Medal that the Virgin Mary herself had
requested through her, all the way up to the barricades. During searches
by the revolutionaries inside the different foundations of the
Congregation, she exhorted everyone to keep up their courage and,
miraculously, the protection of Mary—whom she incessantly invoked—kept
the entire community safe.
When
Sister Catherine heard that revolutionaries had ransacked the church of
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Paris, she said: "They laid hands on Our
Lady? They will not go any further." In the spring, in fact, the
rebellion died out.
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