May Medal

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I remember back when I was a kid, we used to wear a light-blue ribbon with (I believe) a Miraculous Medal (MM) for the month of May.

Also, in the fall (October? November?) we wore a red ribbon with (I think) a Sacred Heart medal, but I’m not sure.

Can anyone give me any info on these? History, etc? Where can I obtain a ribbon/medal?

The only thing I could find in the Catholic Encycl. was that the confraternity of the Immaculate Conception known as the Sodality of the Children of Mary Immaculate adopted the MM on a blue ribbon as a badge.

Since I wore the blue ribbon in school, was I “invested” in this as a child (possibly not understanding it), sort of the way one is invested in say the Brown Scapular? Do I need special permission to wear this?

I’m so completely out to lunch on this 'tain’t funny. :confused:
 
Oh gosh! I have heard of what you are talking about, you may have to find an older lady in the church who may have led the group or taught catechism back then or an older priest or nun who could give you some history. God Bless and good luck.
 
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you may have to find an older lady in the church
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I’m not quite the “older lady” CC spoke of… (nearly, but not quite 😊 )… still, I do have a vague memory of something like this.

Anyway… since this thread was near the bottom… I wanted to bump it to the top. Hope someone with a better memory can help. God bless.
 
Ghoti said:
I remember back when I was a kid, we used to wear a light-blue ribbon with (I believe) a Miraculous Medal (MM) for the month of May.
In one way, the Miraculous Medal is that of the “Immaculate Conception” because it reads on the medal “O Mary, conceived without sin…” (pray for us who have recourse to thee). December 8th is Her Feastday. By the way, in Missouri there is www.amm.org ; website of the MM Shrine in America but there is also an important Shrine in Philadelphia, cammonline.org/pages/cammAddress.html there website and we have a Church that has a MM prayer every Monday, noon, I go ever so often. This is indeed a Consecration as well, consecrating ourselves to her under her title of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. If you are in Canada, well, this is probably a big deal with the French speaking Catholics because where I go to Church for the prayer is a French Church. “Miraculeuse Medaille” maybe or something like that.

In another way, the image of Mary on a Miraculous Medal seems to me and anyone can correct me, the same as Our Lady of Graces which is often represented by this image: tldm.org/directives/Our_Lady.gif .
Also, in the fall (October? November?) we wore a red ribbon with (I think) a Sacred Heart medal, but I’m not sure.

Can anyone give me any info on these? History, etc? Where can I obtain a ribbon/medal?
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** A big deal is devotion to the Sacred Heart in the home, consecrating one’s family and home to it and people put in, I believe a statue or painting. sacredheartdevotion.com/*** seems like a good reference without knowing about this site too much.

Feast Day, June 18th, so good, we can all prepare for this but there is a Church nearby with that name and I think they celebrate something in October as well. So, maybe someone knows.

The Sacred Heart has to do with St. Margaret Mary (Aloque or something like that) meeting Jesus. Doesn’t someone have an image of that in their signature here?
The only thing I could find in the Catholic Encycl. was that the confraternity of the Immaculate Conception known as the Sodality of the Children of Mary Immaculate adopted the MM on a blue ribbon as a badge.

Since I wore the blue ribbon in school, was I “invested” in this as a child (possibly not understanding it), sort of the way one is invested in say the Brown Scapular? Do I need special permission to wear this?
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Probably you are “consecrated” and maybe “invested” but you can renew your vows by looking up Marian Consecration and there are a few around, such as St. Louis De Montfort’s books or whereever one may be led to, one need not go here but information is again available to read at www.consecration.com *
I’m so completely out to lunch on this 'tain’t funny. :confused:
*** better to ask! by the way, I was trying not to use bolds but it all came out italics, so I went with it. ***
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In my day there were Sodalities in every Catholic high school, one for young men and one for young ladies, and the blue miraculous medal with a ribbon on a pin was our badge. I am thinking the boys had the red medal but DH does not remember, but he remembers belonging to Sodality.

the purpose was prayer, good works and service to the Parish and the poor, often along with the St. Vincent de Paul society although we did at times have sock hops and what would now be called “youth group” type activities. We had retreats but a lot more quiet, reverent and prayerful than what passes for a retreat today. but “service” was the hallmark. the highpoint of the year was May crowning, which was handled by the senior girls in Sodality (tallest being chosen to crown the blessed Mother, since the statue was outside in a grotto, larger than lifesize, and on a stone plinth, we still needed a ladder).

the only MM I knew was the gold one with the blue glass or porcelein overlay. tiny ones on ribbons used to be pinned on new babies in Catholic hospitals, I think my mom still had ours in her jewelry box or in the baby books.
 
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