SSPX Medal Question

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I have a very specific SSPX question. It would be great if someone could answer without the thread turning into a trainwreck, please.

I am seeing what looks like a standard Miraculous Medal with the inscription on the front in Latin, being marketed as an “SSPX Medal”. Other than the fact that the front inscription is in Latin, which doesn’t bother me and doesn’t particularly remind me of the SSPX as opposed to any number of other traditional Catholic Latin Mass groups, is there anything about “SSPX” medals that is different from the normal old Miraculous Medal?

I noticed there is no line under the M, which doesn’t bother me because I have seen other ones without a line under the M (including the one I have on right now) and I have heard the line under the M be interpreted both as the earth and alternatively as some possibly Masonic thing that wasn’t in Our Lady’s instructions and that we should avoid.

Just not getting what is “SSPX” about this medal other than the words being in Latin…
 
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Are you sure it’s Latin? French seems much more likely.
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It’s Latin. I had 4 years of Latin in high school and am functional at Church Latin. I also had several years of conversational French.

Medal says “O Maria Concepta Sine Peccato, Ora Pro Nobis Qui Ad Te Confugimus”…Latin
 
I’ve found several other medals with slightly different translations of the French original: “Maria concepta sine labe originale, ora pro nobis” and “O Maria, sine labe concepta, ora pro nobis, qui ad Te recurrimus” and “O Maria sine labe concepta ora pro nobis qui confugimus ad te”.

The French original was: “Marie, conçue sans péché, priez pour nous qui avons recours à vous.”
 
Okay, so how does this relate to my original question?

There is no requirement that the MM be in French. The ones we wear here in the USA are in English and I have seen them in other languages too, so nothing that weird about a Latin one…
 
It’s my impression (and I am by not means an expert ) is that SSPX simply mark them to make them different. It came up on a catholic call in show and that was the answer. I have done no farther research on the matter. I wish I could remember which show.
 
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If it were blessed, it was probably done by an SSPX member. I don’t think that would affect the validity of the blessing, however.
 
I just bought one of the above medals used on ebay, which would expire any past blessing because the blessing doesn’t transfer when the item is sold. I will get it re-blessed after it arrives.
 
Here’s the medal I bought. Looks ordinary to me. It may be that the seller got it from someone they know is SSPX or that they don’t know much about Catholic items and just assumed Latin = SSPX, or that they thought adding SSPX to their listing might make it sell faster.
I bought it because it is 4 by 2 inches and I wanted a really big medal to wear sometimes (not every day as I normally wear my little one under my clothes).

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Looks pretty much the same as the one I’m wearing, other than the prayer in Latin. I’d guess it’s just a normal MM in Latin.
 
Do you notice how this thread has more views than a lot of the others?
It must be because;
they see
“SSPX Medal Question”
“SSPX”------triggered 😶
 
From the website of the Chapel of the Miraculous Medal :------

“In the second image, beautiful rays of light stream from the Blessed Virgin’s open hands, covered with jewelled rings. At that same moment St. Catherine heard a voice saying, “These rays are a symbol of the graces that I pour out on those who ask them of me.” Then an oval formed around the apparition, and Catherine saw in a semi-circle this invocation: “O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you,” emblazoned in gold letters. She then heard a voice saying, “Have a medal made according to this model. For those who wear it with confidence, there will be abundant graces.” Finally, the image turned, and Catherine saw the reverse side of the medal: the letter M surmounted with a little cross and two hearts, one crowned with thorns and the other pierced with a sword, below.”
 
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