by CM Communications | Nov 26, 2019 | News, Spirituality
The sons and daughters of Saint Vincent de Paul and Saint Louise de Marillac, like the phoenix, were emerging from the still smoldering ashes of the French Revolution. Determined, brave and generous young men and women were beginning to arrive at our houses and,...
by CM Communications | Nov 26, 2019 | News, Spirituality
In 1930, around the 100th anniversary celebration of the Virgin’s apparitions to Saint Catherine Labouré, devotion to the Miraculous Medal was rather widespread in the city of Buenos Aires. At that time, there began to be talk of the city’s need for a church dedicated...
by CM Communications | Nov 26, 2019 | News
A Shrine for Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal was the dream of Fr. Teodoro F. Barquin, CM, who in 1978 was the national director of the Marian Center and of the Miraculous Medal Apostolate – two projects of the Philippine Province of the Congregation of the...
by Communication Cont | Nov 25, 2019 | News
December 8, 2019, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, marks the 140th Anniversary of the dedication of The Miraculous Medal Shrine in Philadelphia. For the 140 years, the Shrine has been a place where pilgrims can, “Experience Our Lady and Experience Beauty and...
by CM Communications | Nov 24, 2019 | News, Spirituality, Vincentian Family
As a small tribute to this church and to the Community that celebrates the faith there, we offer some historical and artistic information about the Basilica of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and Saint Vincent de Paul, taken from the work of Father Fernando Espiago,...
by CM Communications | Nov 22, 2019 | News, Spirituality, Superior General
Rome, 21 November 2019 My very dear confreres, May the grace and peace of Jesus be always with us! For all of us, life is a pilgrimage. We are constantly in motion. This pilgrimage is not so much a physical movement from one place to another, but an inner movement of...