WHY WE SHOULD WEAR MIRACULOUS MEDAL?
W hen I was still Protestant, I remember reading St Ephrem the Syrian. I was amazed by how often he spoke of the Mother of Christ and how much he praised her in his poetic hymnody. Ephrem was a Syrian Christian living from AD 306 – 373. He is early and he undoubtedly teaches that Mary was without stain, unlike other humans. He is probably the earliest and most explicit Patristic witness to the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. As a Protestant, I got it. I was never really bothered by the fact that Mary would be sinless. In fact, it made sense to me. I was suspect of the doctrine simply because Paul said that “all had sinned” but I could see how the doctrine could be preserved and read in context. I also learned about the Miraculous Medal – which is a small medal that commentaries the Immaculate Conception. It’s really called the Medal of Immaculate Conception, but so many miracles have been worked through it that it is now simply called the Miraculous...