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Feast day of

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

BY: SEM. BERNARD BALBERAN

The Vincentian family was Papag, SVST school publication.
on full blast during the feast In addition, we also had a
of Our Lady of the Miraculous Marian story making contest
Medal which was celebrated which was basically an essay
on 27th day of November 2018. about their encounter with
The day after was the feast day Mother Mary on their journey
of St. Catherine Laboure, DC. as seminarians. The contest
Needless to say, the community was won by Sem. Marvin
of the Daughters of Charity Manimtim. The awarding of
were very busy during those both contests came late due
times, taking into account to prior commitment and
that they were the front liners schedules. Nonetheless, the
in promoting the Miraculous awarding paved the way to
Medal. Likewise, the Miraculous recognize and hone talents of
Medal apostolate was busy the SVS seminarians.

distributing medals, religious
items and pamphlets as a way of the three apparitions of the And of course, we will never
commitment in spreading the blessed Virgin to St. Catherine forget the highlight of our
Miraculous Medal devotion. Laboure and the wide variety of celebration where we had our
the collection of the medals. daily Novena Masses in honor of
In line with this, the Vincentian Our Lady of Miraculous Medal
Seminarians conducted On the other hand, we had at Santuario of San Vicente De
activities in solidarity with our a Poem to Mary contest which Paul. The whole big event was
grand Marian devotion and was displayed to the public, culminated by a procession
festive celebration, wherein we inside the Santuario Parish from Santuario to Tandang
had our humble yet productive and later in SVS hallway. The Sora Market and back to the
activities. Spearheaded by the judging process was for the seminary.
Spiritual Ministry, we had a public to cast their votes by
week long Marian Exhibit which giving some amount of money
was also in line with the mission to their chosen piece which they
of the Congregation to spread think were the best. At the end,
and promote devotion to our the one which gained the largest
Lady of the Miraculous Medal. amount wins. The winner for
Despite the limited resources, the poem to Mary contest was
they were able to provide and Sem. Orlando Estor. Likewise a
display exquisite painting special award was given to Sem.
collections of Our Lady, and Bernard Balberan whose entry
masterpieces for the image of was entitled to be featured in

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