The Basilica of Our Lady of Victory has quite the historical and spiritual connection to the revelation of the Miraculous Medal given to St. Catherine Laboure. Father Joe Roesch, MIC, shares with us this special connection just outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory in Paris.
Initially, St. Bernadette's pastor didn't believe that she was seeing the Blessed Virgin Mary appear to her; no doubt it would be a difficult thing to believe!
Our Lady chose to come to a poor, small, uneducated girl in an obscure town in the southwest of France. Learn more about these miraculous apparitions from Fr.
After the Soubirous family encountered financial downfall, they moved into a former jail cell that was unfit for living in. Father Joe Roesch, MIC, shares about this time in St.