This wonderful modest Saint was a young postulant in the Rue de Bac convent in Paris and in 1830 Our Lady appeared to her at a time of huge upheaval in France following the the Satanic destruction of that country in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
She requested that Catherine have a medal struck as designed by Our Lady. When this medal began to circulate major miracles occurred as there was a cholera epidemic and people were literally dying on the streets- unlike the so called Covid “epidemic”!- and there was huge employment and poverty.
In the 60 years after its initial distribution a billion medals were distributed around the world at a time when there was no air travel!
This is my reflection on this incredible sacramental of our Catholic faith;