Silver-Tone Red Rhinestone Cross Stretch Bracelet

3/4 x 1/2-inch Sterling Silver Our Lady of La Vang Medal.

This Catholic medal will arrive with an 18-inch silver chain, in a beautiful jewelry box ready to be the perfect religious gift.

For an additional charge, CatholicShop.com can engrave the back of this Christian pendant with a message of up to 3 lines of text, with 12 characters on each line.

When will it ship? Ships the next business day.

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This Crucifix Pendant available from CatholicShop.com features dimensions of 20 X 12 millimeters, approximately 3/4-inch by 1/2-inch.

Made of 14K Yellow Gold, this religious jewelry piece weighs approximately 1.07 grams. It comes ready to give as a gift in a free deluxe gift box.

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Chain: This medal does not come with a chain, but it does come with an attached bale to fit any chain. See our 14K gold chains. 

 

 

Our Saint Christopher/Wrestling Rosary features 6mm Aqua Fire Polished beads. The Crucifix measures 1 3/8 x 3/4 inches. The centerpiece features a St. Christopher/Wrestling medal.

Hand-crafted in the USA by expert jewelers, it features premium beads and silver plated parts. High-end rosaries and rosary bracelets like this St. Christopher/Wrestling 6mm Aqua Fire Polished Rosary are the perfect religious gift. It includes a free gift box and free shipping.

Our Saint Sebastian / Volleyball Rosary features 6mm Amethyst Fire Polished beads. The Crucifix measures 1 5/8 x 1 inches. The centerpiece features a St. Sebastian / Volleyball medal.

Hand-crafted in the USA by expert jewelers, it features premium beads and silver plated parts. High-end rosaries and rosary bracelets like this St. Sebastian / Volleyball 6mm Amethyst Fire Polished Rosary are the perfect religious gift. It includes a free gift box and free shipping.

Our Saint Christopher/Track&Field Rosary features 6mm Sapphire Fire Polished beads. The Crucifix measures 1 5/8 x 1 inches. The centerpiece features a St. Christopher/Track&Field medal.

Hand-crafted in the USA by expert jewelers, it features premium beads and silver plated parts. High-end rosaries and rosary bracelets like this St. Christopher/Track&Field 6mm Sapphire Fire Polished Rosary are the perfect religious gift. It includes a free gift box and free shipping.

Saint Gerard Majella, the Wonder-Worker and "Patron of Expectant Mothers," is worth far more to the veneration of Catholics than he has been afforded for much of history. Though he died of tuberculosis at only 29 as a lay brother, he achieved paramount sanctity, as great as the wonderworkers of the first millennium. His character was such that his religious superiors attested not only that he had never committed a mortal sin, but also that they could not detect a single trace of guilt at all! St. Gerard was born in Muro, south of Naples, in 1726. His father died while he was a child, and so his mother sent him to be an apprentice tailor under his uncle, who was a kind master, though Gerard suffered on account of the foreman. Eventually, St. Gerard found work on his own as a servant of the rather picky Bishop of Lacedonia, who died, leaving Gerard to go back to work as a tailor. He gave to his mother and the poor and also donated for Masses for the poor souls in Purgatory. Hearing God's call to religion, he tried to become a Franciscan and then a hermit but failed both times. At last he managed to enter the newly founded Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer—the Redemptorists—at age 26. His jobs included all manner of manual labor, which he performed dutifully, and he even bound himself to an additional vow to always do that which seemed more perfect, not only exhibiting perfect obedience when asked but also obeying his superiors' unspoken desires even in their absence. He became called the Father of the Poor for his strenuous work, despite his frail health, and it was a mortification of the will for him to stay away from the Lord in the tabernacle. One particular example of his sanctity comes from early in his career as a Redemptorist. Though he was a marvel of chastity, when he was 27, he was accused of being the father of a young pregnant woman's child. He bore the lie resolutely, patiently, and silently, barred from receiving Sacramental Communion on account of his unwillingness to deny his guilt. It was not for years, until the woman died having revealed the truth, that Gerard was finally acquitted, earning the astonished praise of St. Alphonsus Liguori himself. His miracles were intense and known to many, including raising a boy from the dead who had fallen off a cliff; multiplying wheat and bread; walking on water to save fisherman from a storm; and posthumously saving an expectant mother and baby in childbirth by his handkerchief. St. Gerard became famous for these miracles and more: cures, charities, ecstasies, mortifications, prayers, purity, obedience, zeal for souls, discernment of spirits, penetration of hearts, infused knowledge, prophecies, knowledge of distant events, bilocations, and power over nature and over other human hearts—and even over the devil. Finally, he predicted the day and hour of his own death of tuberculosis in 1755. Recounted in this sizeable biography are also his funeral, posthumous miracles, beatification, and canonization in 1904. You will have to search far and wide to find another Saint's life as inspiring as that of St. Gerard Majella. For God has surely manifested His approval of this servant and his wonderful sanctity through such many and great miracles of grace.