crops This was the saint who had the honor of the Blessed. Virgin appeared to him to recommend to make the Miraculous Medal. Born in France, a peasant family in 1806. To be motherless at age 8 entrusted to the Blessed. Virgin, which would serve as a mother, and the Mother of God accepted his request.
As her older sister was a nun Vicenza, Catherine had to stay at the forefront of work in the kitchen and laundry in the house of his father, and therefore could not learn to read or write.
At 14, he asked his dad to let him go from religious to a convent but he, he needed to address the many offices of the house, not let him. She asked Our Lord to grant him what I desired: be religious. And night in a dream saw an old priest who told him: "One day I'll help care for the sick." The image of the priest is stuck forever in the memory. 
Finally, at age 24, he convinced his father to let her go to visit a religious sister, and came to the room of the convent there was a portrait of St. Vincent de Paul and realized that this was the priest who had seen in dreams and had invited her to help care for the sick. Since that day it was proposed to be sister Vincentian, and both insisted that he was finally accepted by the community. Being Catalina a young nun, had a occurrences that have become famous in the whole Church. In the first, one night being in the room felt a beautiful boy invited her to go to chapel. He followed it up there and he brought her the image of the Blessed Virgin. Our Lady told him that night several future things that were to happen in the Catholic Church and recommended that the month of May was celebrated with great fervor in honor of the Mother of God. Catherine always believed that a child who had guided her was her guardian angel. But the most famous appearance was that of November 27, 1830. Being at night in the chapel, suddenly saw the Blessed. Virgin is appeared totally glowing, pouring out of his hands beautiful rays of light toward the ground. And instructed it to make an image of Our Lady and had appeared to him and ordered a medal that had initials on one side of the Virgin MA, and a cross with the words "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee. " And he promised very special aid for those who take this medal and pray that prayer. Catalina told his confessor this appearance, but he did not believe him. However, the priest began to realize that this was very holy nun, and went to the Archbishop to consult the case. The Archbishop gave him permission to make the medals, and then the miracles began.
People began to realize that those who wore the medal with devotion and prayed the prayer "O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to You," getting favors formidable, and everyone began to ask the medal and wear it. Even the emperor of France and his senior staff had also. was a Freemason in Paris far from the religion. The daughter of this man got him to accept the medal placed around his neck of the Miraculous Medal, and soon asked Mason a priest to visit him, renounced his Masonic error and ended his days as a Catholic believer. Catalina
asked the Blessed. Virgin why light rays coming out of their hands, some are as cut and do not fall into the earth. She replied: "Those rays that do not fall to the ground represent the many favors and graces which I would give to people, but they are not being granted because people do not ask." He added: "Many thanks and not get heavenly aid because they do not ask."
After the apparitions of the Blessed. Virgin, the young Catherine lived the rest of his years Cinderella as a hidden and unknown to all. Scores of people were informed of the apparitions and messages that the Miraculous Medal was in 1830. Already in 1836 he had distributed more than 130,000 medals. Aladel Father Confessor of the Holy, published a book telling what Our Lady had come to say and promise, but without revealing the name of the nun who had received these messages, because she had made him promise not to tell who had appeared. And so while this devotion was spread everywhere, Catalina was in the convent sweeping, washing, looking after chickens and doing nursing, as the most humble and ignored all the sisters, and often receive abuse and humiliation. 
In 1842 came a case that became much more popular Miraculous Medal happened in the following way: the rich Jew Regensburg, was kindly hosted by a Catholic family in Rome, which as one payment of his many kindnesses, asked to take a medal around his neck while the Miraculous Medal. He accepted this as a particular affection for his friends, and went as a tourist to visit the temple and suddenly there at the altar of Our Lady saw that the Blessed Virgin appeared to him and smiled. This was enough to convert to Catholicism and devote the rest of his life to spreading the Catholic faith and devotion to the Mother of God. This wonderful conversion was known and admired throughout the world and helped thousands of people began to also lead the medal of Our Lady (which gets favors from God is not the medal, which is a death metal, but our faith and demonstration of affection that we do to the Blessed Virgin, carrying her sacred image.)
Since 1830, the date of the apparitions, until 1876, the date of his death, Catherine was in the convent without anyone occur to him that she was to which he had appeared to the Virgin Mary to recommend the Miraculous Medal. In recent years got to put an image of the Miraculous Medal at the site had appeared to him (and seeing her, but it is a beautiful picture, she exclaimed: "Oh, the Virgin is much more beautiful than this image) .
Finally, eight months before his death, the deceased and his former confessor, Catherine told his new superior all occurrences in detail and found out who was the lucky one who had seen and heard the Virgin. So when she died, the whole village turned his funeral (he who humbles himself will be exalted).
Shortly after Catherine's death was led an 11-year-old invalid of birth, and closer to the tomb of the saint, was instantly healed.
In 1947 Pope Pius XII declared St. Catherine Laboure, and that statement was also confirmed that what she told of the apparitions of the Virgin it was true.
What I will say to me this party today?
Oh Mary conceived without sin, Pray for us who have recourse to Thee.
