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Mother Teresa went on a picnic with Catholics in Nicaragua, a country in Central America where their was an armed struggle by forces for and against the government. This story is told by a priest with Mother Teresa.
“Suddenly, a hundred heavily armed soldiers emerged from a nearby woods. Even though I did not know who they were or to what unit they belonged, I felt extremely uneasy.
…Mother Teresa took the initiative. The soldiers had just taken up a threatening position when she stood up and walked straight towards them. She stopped right in front of their machine guns, which were aimed at us. She rummaged in her bag and gave each soldier a Miraculous Medal, one by one. In order to take the medals, the soldiers had to sling their weapons around their necks. After Mother Teresa had given a medal to each and every soldier–and they had taken them–she invited them all to eat with us. They declined. We were able to proceed more or less calmly to our picnic.”
(from “Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Personal Portrait,” by Leo Maasburg (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2011), p. 98)
Mother Teresa, sometimes called saint of the slums for her care for the poor, was officially canonized as a Catholic saint in 2016.
In 1830 the Virgin Mary appeared to a French nun who told the nun that all who wore the medal, whose design she gave, will receive great graces, which afterwards happened. Because of the things that happened to those who wore it, it came to be called the Miraculous Medal.
Mother Teresa went on a picnic with Catholics in Nicaragua, a country in Central America where their was an armed struggle by forces for and against the government. This story is told by a priest with Mother Teresa.
“Suddenly, a hundred heavily armed soldiers emerged from a nearby woods. Even though I did not know who they were or to what unit they belonged, I felt extremely uneasy.
…Mother Teresa took the initiative. The soldiers had just taken up a threatening position when she stood up and walked straight towards them. She stopped right in front of their machine guns, which were aimed at us. She rummaged in her bag and gave each soldier a Miraculous Medal, one by one. In order to take the medals, the soldiers had to sling their weapons around their necks. After Mother Teresa had given a medal to each and every soldier–and they had taken them–she invited them all to eat with us. They declined. We were able to proceed more or less calmly to our picnic.”
(from “Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Personal Portrait,” by Leo Maasburg (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2011), p. 98)
Mother Teresa, sometimes called saint of the slums for her care for the poor, was officially canonized as a Catholic saint in 2016.
In 1830 the Virgin Mary appeared to a French nun who told the nun that all who wore the medal, whose design she gave, will receive great graces, which afterwards happened. Because of the things that happened to those who wore it, it came to be called the Miraculous Medal.
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