How to choose your Miraculous Medal

The Immaculate Conception is the patroness of Spain, and her feast day, December 8, is one of the most beloved of the year. Her medal is a beautiful gift for an Inma or a Concha, or for any occasion that deserves protection. We’ll help you choose.

1. What it means

The Immaculate Conception celebrates that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. In Spain, it is a devotion with centuries of history, closely associated with the Spanish infantry and the miracle of Empel. We tell you more in the Immaculate Conception: history and curiosities.

2. Immaculate or Miraculous?

The Miraculous Medal also represents the Immaculate Conception, as she appeared to Saint Catherine Labouré in 1830, with her arms open and rays of light. Our Immaculate Conception medals have their own design inspired by antique medals. If you are looking for the Miraculous Medal design, read the Miraculous Medal: what it means and how to choose yours.

And if you already know what you want, here you can see all the models of our Miraculous Virgin medal.

3. With a pearl or with natural stones

The pearl is the classic for baptisms and First Communions; lapis lazuli and turquoise recall the blue of the Virgin’s mantle; apatite or fluorite add a very special color.

Immaculate Conception with pearl
€69

Immaculate Conception with rubies and sapphires
€69

Immaculate Conception with apatite
€69

Immaculate Conception with lapis lazuli
€65

Immaculate Conception with dark turquoise
€65

Immaculate Conception with fluorite
€69

More Immaculate Conception medals, with enamel and color

With amethyst Multicolored stones Natural pearl and turquoise enamel Pink enamel Pearl, crystal and enamel Orange enamel and stone

4. When to give it as a gift

• On December 8, to an Inmaculada, Inma, Concepción or Concha.
• At Christmas, as a meaningful gift.
• At a baptism or First Communion, as a first medal.
• To a mother or grandmother, so that the next generation can inherit it.

5. How to wear it

All come with a 40 cm gold-plated chain + 5 cm extender, ready to wear as a pendant, and you can pair them with our pearl and natural stone necklaces.

Facts you can check

• The feast day of December 8 is more than five centuries old: it was established by Pope Sixtus IV in 1476 and Clement XI extended it to the entire Church in 1708. Source
• The document with which Pius IX proclaimed the dogma in 1854 is called Ineffabilis Deus. It states that Mary was preserved «immune from all stain of original sin from the first moment of her conception». Source
• Four years after the dogma, on March 25, 1858, at the sixteenth apparition of Lourdes, the Virgin told Bernadette her name in the local dialect: «Que soy era Immaculada Councepciou», «I am the Immaculate Conception». Source
• According to the Army Museum, the Tercio de Bobadilla was besieged in Empel, on the island of Bommel. After finding the image of the Immaculate Conception, the river Mosa froze that night. Since 1892, the Infantry has officially celebrated its patroness every December 8. Source

Discover all our Immaculate Conception medals, handmade in Spain with 18K gold plating, 24–72 h shipping and gift-wrapped.

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