Chapter I

Sister Catherine, Daughter of Charity--Her Birth--Early
Life--Vocation--Entrance into the Community--Apparition of
the Blessed Virgin--The Medal--Sister Catherine is sent to
d'Enghien Hospital--Her humble, hidden Life--Her Death.
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CHAPTER II.

Mary's Agency in the Church--This Agency always manifest, seems
to have disappeared during the Eighteenth and at the beginning
of the Nineteenth Century--Mary reappears in 1830--Motives and
Importance of this Apparition--The Immaculate Conception.
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CHAPTER III.

Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin to Sister Catherine--First
Apparition: An Angel Conducts the Sister to the Chapel--Mary
Converses with Her--Second Apparition: Mary standing upon
a Globe, her hands emitting Rays of Light, symbolic of
Grace--Mary orders a Medal to be Struck--Third Apparition: Mary
Repeats the Order.
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CHAPTER IV.

The Medal Appears--The Welcome it Receives--Canonical
Investigation ordered by Mgr. de Quélen--Wonderful Circulation
of the Medal.
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CHAPTER V.

Development of the Devotion to the Immaculate Conception--Mgr.
de Quélen's Circular.
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CHAPTER VI.

Extraordinary Graces obtained by means of the Miraculous
Medal--Graces obtained from 1832 to 1835--During the year 1835,
in France, Switzerland, Savoy, Turkey--From 1836 to 1838, in
France, Italy, Holland, &c.--Notre Dame des Victoires--From
1838 to 1842, in Greece, America, China, &c.--From 1843 to
1877, in France, Germany, Italy, America.
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CHAPTER VII.

Progress of the Devotion to Mary crowned by the Definition of
the Immaculate Conception--Our Lady of La Salette--The Children
of Mary--The Definition of the Immaculate Conception.
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CHAPTER VIII.

The Miraculous Medal and the War--The War in the East--The
Italian War--The United States--War between Prussia and
Austria--Souvenirs of the Commune.
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