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Mary’s wish, expressed in the vision, is that all her children wear her Medal. To fulfill this wish Pope Pius X established The Association of the Miraculous Medal. Its purpose is “to render due honor to Mary Immaculate, first by sanctifying ourselves, and second by contributing to the sanctification of our neighbor by means of the Miraculous Medal.”

To promote this Association and to encourage all to become members Pius X (by brief of June 3, 1905) extended to it all the following Indulgences:

Those invested in the Medal may gain a Plenary Indulgence (under the usual conditions of Confession, Communion and prayer for the intentions of the Pope) on the following days:

The day of investiture; at the hour of death; during the exercises of retreat, once a year; on the first Sunday of every month;  all the Saturdays of Lent;  on Passion Sunday and the following Friday;  on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Holy Week:

Feasts of Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Holy Trinity; Immaculate Conception, Nativity of the B.V.M., Purification, Annunciation, Assumption; St. Joseph, March 19;  Blessed Joseph Mary Thomas, March 24; Canonization of St. Cajetan Apr. 12;  Finding of the Holy Cross, May 3;  Blessed Paul Buralis, June 17;  Nativity of St. John the Baptist, June 24;  SS. Peter and Paul, June 29;  Last Sunday of July;  Our Lady of the Angels (of Portiuncula), Aug. 2;  St. Cajetan, Aug. 7;  St. Augustine, Aug. 28;  Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Sept. 14;  St. Michael, Archangel, Sept. 29; Guardian Angels, Oct. 2;  St. Teresa, Oct. 15;  All Saints, Nov. 1;  St. Andrew of Avellino, Nov. 10;  Blessed John Marinonius, Dec. 13;  first and last days of the Novena in preparation