The Marian apparitions at rue du Bac in Paris in 1830 are known mainly for their fruit, the Miraculous Medal, on which their public reception was focused. The story of the three encounters with Our Lady, told by Catherine Labouré to her confessor, Jean-Marie Aladel, was overshadowed by the subject of Marian devotion. In fact, the confessor of the visionary was the first public narrator of the story of the apparitions, an abridged account confined almost exclusively to the Miraculous Medal. The pastoral ‘success’ of the apparitions of the rue Bac was mainly due to the numerous testimonies of graces accompanying the distribution of the Miraculous Medal. The initial stages of this process: the first publications, the canonical process and examples of stories of healings and conversions coming from Poland, are the subject of this study.
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