Dominic Medals

St. Catherine said that on the back side of the image was the letter “M” surmounted with a little cross, which appears atop the base of an altar. The whole significance of the back side of the medal is to emphasize the unity of Jesus and Mary in the work of Redemption. Pope Pius XI wrote,

“From the nature of His work, the Redeemer ought to have associated His Mother with His work. For this reason, we invoke her under the title of Co-Redemptrix. She gave us the Savior, she accompanied Him in the work of the Redemption of mankind. And immediately beneath the Cross, at the last moments of His life, she was proclaimed, by the Redeemer, as our Mother, the Mother of the whole universe.” 

Furthermore, from the words of Saint John Paul II, 

“At Calvary, she united herself with the sacrifice of her Son…her maternal heart shared to the very depths the will of Christ ‘to gather into one all the dispersed children of God (Jn. 11:52).’ Having suffered for the Church, Mary deserved to become the Mother of all the disciples of her Son, the Mother of their unity…The Gospels do not tell us of an appearance of the risen Christ to Mary. Nevertheless, she also had to have a privileged experience of His Resurrection. In fact, Mary’s role as CoRedemptrix did not cease with the glorification of her Son.” 

As seen from these two Popes, Mary has been understood as Co-Redemptrix throughout church history. Countless saints, theologians, and popes have promoted this title, and many books have been written on the Blessed Virgin Mary, honoring her role in salvation. However, Mary has yet to be given these titles (Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate) through a formal solemn declaration. It is our duty to see that the unity of Jesus and Mary are understood and the dogma is proclaimed. Our Blessed Mother must be declared Co-Redemptrix through an ex-cathedra pronouncement, giving greater honor to her asCo-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate of all God’s people.

Throughout these apparitions and messages, Mary continues to emphasize the importance of devotion to her Immaculate Heart.

"Jesus wishes to use you to make me better known and loved. He wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart...my Immaculate Heart will never abandon you, but will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God."

God is responding to our needs with a new kind of devotion and powerful means of grace, namely that of the Two Hearts.

The Devotion of the Two Hearts developed through private revelation, first, in the seventeenth century, when Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, and later, in the twentieth century, when Mary appeared to the children of Fatima, especially to Lucia after she became a nun. It is interesting, and admittedly sad, that in both cases, the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart came in a spirit of lamenting. Our Lord told Sr. Margaret Mary,

“Behold the [Sacred] Heart, that has loved humanity, and has spared nothing for them, even to consuming itself to give them pledges of Its love, but which receives from the majority of people, no other return but ingratitude and insults toward the Sacrament of Love.”

Similarly, at Fatima, the Child Jesus appeared to Sr. Lucia, saying:

“Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce It at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation to remove them.”

In 1830, St. Catherine Labouré’s Miraculous Medal, depicts the Hearts of Jesus and Mary united for the first time in private revelation. Through this vision and medal, Heaven was confirming and revealing its plan to unite the Two Hearts for our times. The private revelations of Fatima also advance the heavenly request that the Heart of Jesus is honored together with the Heart of Mary. Our Lord told Lucia of Fatima: “Put the devotion of the Immaculate Heart beside the devotion of My Sacred Heart.”

Thus, Heaven has declared that the Two Hearts united will deliver the Church from the snares of the evil one. Jesus and Mary want each of us to unite ourselves with their united Hearts in a continual tri-union of love to save us from the perils of the world in these times.

“My heart, my Immaculate Heart, is the channel through which the graces of the Sacred Heart are given to men.”

It is by this Two Heart image, that the unity of Jesus and Mary are emphasized, and the desire for Mary to be named Co-Redemptrix is depicted. We pray that all the promises of grace and mercy, with devotion to the images of the Sacred and Immaculate Heart, be granted through devotion to this Purity Medal and Image.

The 12 stars placed around the perimeter of the medal represent, once again, the 12 stars mentioned in Revelation. Mary is the Mother of the 12 tribes of Israel and the Mother of the 12 Apostles of the Church. She is the Queen of the Universe. Mary, together with her offspring, Jesus, and her spiritual offspring, the children of the Church, will crush the head of the dragon in the apocalyptic times, as she did the serpent, in the time of Christ, at Calvary.