How many religious medals are too many?

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A little bit of show and tell and a question. How many medals on one chain are too many? I have been collecting religious medals that I get at a local shrine gift shop.

It started with four. While I was checking out, the shop manager made a comment: “I see you’ve got some of the real power-hitters in your lineup”. If I remember it was St. Padre Pio, St. Faustina, the Virgin of Carmel, and the Miraculous medal.

The thought made me chuckle, and since then I’ve added more of my favorite saints comprising nine different medals, some of them being “double headers”. They are inexpensive medals. A buck or two at most. I put small split rings on them replacing the cheap jump rings. Then they all live on a larger split ring, which hangs on a stainless ball chain, the type used for dog tags. Jokingly call the whole rig my “God tags”.

1 - St. Faustina / Divine Mercy
2 - Virgin of Carmel
3 - Miraculous Medal of the Virgin Mary
4 - St. Pope John Paul II / Pope Benedict XVI
5 - St. Michael the Archangel
6 - St. Joseph
7 - The Holy Family / The Holy Spirit
8 - St. Padre Pio
9 - St. Anthony / St. Francis

I’ve been wearing this rig under my coat all winter. I don’t think I’ll be wearing them exposed, all summer, though. I already wear a crucifix and brown scapular under my shirt. It would just be too much.

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Only you can answer that question. Wear as many as you’re comfortable with. It’s a personal thing.
 
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1 - St. Faustina / Divine Mercy
2 - Virgin of Carmel
3 - Miraculous Medal of the Virgin Mary
4 - St. Pope John Paul II / Pope Benedict XVI
5 - St. Michael the Archangel
6 - St. Joseph
7 - The Holy Family / The Holy Spirit
8 - St. Padre Pio
9 - St. Anthony / St. Francis
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What, no 5-way medal?

My son has about 5 medals on his chain, including a St. Francis medal that our dog wore on her collar before she passed away. We’ve offered to replace it with a silver medal in place of the pot metal but he likes it the way it is.

I like how you put them on a small ring; that looks good.
 
I think that as long as you’re wearing them as because of devotion to what they representd and not thinking you’re accumulating good luck charms it’s a matter of personal choice.
 
Where do you get your medals, s.cono? That St. Michael one has lovely details on it.

Why no St.Cono medal? Do they not exist?
 
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Where do you get your medals, s.cono? That St. Michael one has lovely details on it.

Why no St.Cono medal? Do they not exist?
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I get the medals at the National Shrine of Our lady of Mt. Carmel in Middletown, NY. The St. Michael medal came on a prayer card, which wore out from being carried in my wallet. It is an embedded medal. That is the face is embedded in hard acrylic.

I do have a Saint Cono medal which my mother got me from a jeweler in Brooklyn. They are made in the shop. I don’t wear it much in fear of losing it. My chain broke once, but fortunately I caught it before losing the medal.

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I prefer to wear just one (a plastic Miraculous Medal) and put the rest of my medals on my rosaries.

Once in a great while I will wear my dad’s St. Jude medal. I really don’t like to risk losing them though and they’re safer on the rosaries because I use heavy gauge fishing lure rings to put them on the paracord. Also, metal medals set off metal detectors, which is a pain for air travel or for going into courthouses and federal buildings.
 
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