Fr. Joseph Dirvin wrote what some of have called the definitive biography of Catherine Laboure – Saint Catherine Labouré of the Miraculous Medal“This book is the full and authoritative story on the life and works of St. Catherine, the Daughter of Charity to whom the Miraculous Medal was manifested by the Blessed Virgin in Paris in 1830. It contains much material never published before, since Father Dirvin had access to archives and places never before opened to a biographer or a historian. These were not only in Paris, but also in Rome and in the village of Fain-les-moutiers, where Catherine was born and spent her childhood. Every statement of fact has been fully authenticated; where evidence on any point is not fully conclusive, this is clearly indicated. In this book you will read everything significant that is recorded anywhere about St. Catherine and her life’s work.”
It is available as a free download from EWTN Libary.
The English version of Somos presents the text in more bite-sized chapter-length pieces.
Foreword •I. “Now You Will Be My Mother” •II. “Well, Then, tell Him” •III. The Dream •IV. Awakening •V. Return of St. Vincent de Paul •VI. A Vision of Christ as King •VII. “This is the Blessed Virgin” •VIII. The Apparition of the Miraculous Medal •IX. The Secret of Forty-Six Years •X. The Medal and its Wonders •XI. The Dark Night of a Soul •XII. Three Anguished Letters •XIII. Three Old Men of Enghien •XIV. The Medal and Ratisbonne •XV. The “Cross of Victory” Vision •XVI. The Commune and Communists •XVII. Death and Glory •
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