p.48
English
Booklet.

The Church of the eighteenth century suffered greatly from Jansenism and the cold teachings of the rationalists.
Yet the Blessed Virgin Mary offered her people a token - a medal
with the promise that those who wore it would receive a shower of graces.
Now
almost two hundred years after the first appearance of the Miraculous Medal
it may not be inopportune to retell its history
and that of St Catherine Laboure to whom the medal was entrusted.
For
much as it is loved by Catholics
few
perhaps
know much about its origin.