St. Catherine Laboure
On June 6 the Lord appeared to the young (age 24) Daughter of Charity novice Catherine at Mass, and again on the nights of July 18-19 when she was summoned to the chapel by a "child clothed in white" to converse with the Virgin Mary. Catherine was told prophecies and charged with "a mission" that manifested itself on November 27 in an early morning (5:30am) appearance of the Blessed Virgin who was "clothed in white" standing on a globe and "a serpent." Rays of light issued forth from rings on her fingers and Catherine was told to commission a medal of what she was seeing. Then, turning the letter "M surmounted by a bar and a cross" underneath which were the hearts of Jesus and Mary all surrounded by the words "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee."
~ 1832: Napoleon-appointed, unrepentant 'archbishop' of Paris suddenly repents when the Medal was brought in his home Napoleon's unrepentant 'archbishop' of Belgium suddenly repents when the Medal was brought in his home
~ 1841: Jewish banker Alphonse Ratisbonne accepts a dare to wear the medal and say the Memorare, later seeing a vision of Mary, converting to the faith and becoming a missionary to his fellow Jews
~ 1933: St. Catherine's body was exhumed for in the cause of her sainthood and found to be incorrupt, as it remains so today as a witness to the authenticity of her 'mission'
~ 1944: American prisoner Claude Newman picks up a discarded Medal, has a vision of Mary and is converted at the time of his execution
~ 1947: the Grand Master of the Polish Masonic Lodges, Stempowski, is given a medal to carry by St. Maximillian Kolbe. Newspapers reported his deathbed conversion to the faith with credit given to the Medal