{"product_id":"vintage-sterling-silver-tiny-star-shaped-miraculous-medal","title":"Vintage Sterling Silver Tiny Star-Shaped Miraculous Medal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Miraculous Medal in sterling silver, five-eighths of an inch across and cut as an eight-pointed star. The Virgin stands on the globe with her hands lowered and open, rays falling from them across the scalloped field; the reverse carries the letter M surmounted by a cross, with two small hearts beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary showed this design to St. Catherine Laboure in the Rue du Bac chapel in Paris in 1830 and asked that a medal be made from it, promising graces to all who wore it. So many followed that within a few years everyone was calling it the miraculous one, and the name stayed. The rays streaming from her hands are those graces; the hearts on the reverse are the Sacred Heart crowned with thorns and the Immaculate Heart pierced by a sword. Sterling suits the star, since silver was the metal of the first of these medals and takes a soft antique tone down in the recesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sterling silver star 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":48943612821689,"sku":"3c3-1201-S","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/9177\/3369\/files\/3c3-1201-S.png?v=1787688770","url":"https:\/\/catholicshop.com\/products\/vintage-sterling-silver-tiny-star-shaped-miraculous-medal","provider":"CatholicShop.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}