{"product_id":"vintage-bronze-our-lady-of-lourdes-heart-medal","title":"Vintage Bronze Our Lady of Lourdes Heart Medal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis heart-shaped medal is pierced with openwork, and within the frame the Virgin stands with her hands joined and her veil falling around her, set inside a leafy arch with flowers gathered at her feet. The other face is plain but for a cursive line across the middle, \u003cem\u003eSouvenir de N.D. de Lourdes\u003c\/em\u003e, a souvenir of Our Lady of Lourdes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1858 Bernadette Soubirous, a miller's daughter of fourteen, saw a lady at the grotto of Massabielle outside the town, standing in a niche in the rock with roses at her feet, and was told after many weeks of asking: I am the Immaculate Conception. The spring Bernadette scraped open in the mud still runs, and the sick have been carried to it ever since. Pilgrims have always brought something home from Lourdes, and a heart of this kind was made to be exactly that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Our Lady of Lourdes heart medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the medal's vintage character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtisan-cast from an antique original\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdd a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Equatoria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48943563604153,"sku":"3c3-1372-B","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/9177\/3369\/files\/3c3-1372-B.png?v=1787688759","url":"https:\/\/catholicshop.com\/products\/vintage-bronze-our-lady-of-lourdes-heart-medal","provider":"CatholicShop.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}