Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

Originally constructed via the imperial decree of King Louis XVIII on 25 March 1813, the chapel was formerly within the former building of Hotel de Châtillon.

It was blessed and dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on 6 August 1815 and served as a part of the motherhouse of the Order of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul.

Pope Pius XII granted a decree of coronation for a namesake image venerated in the Church of Saint Matthew in Maastricht, Netherlands on 15 March 1956 which later took place on 27 May of the same year.

[2] Accordingly, the Virgin Mary later requested the creation of a medal with the following invocation: Latin: “O Maria Sine Labe Concepta, Ora Pro Nobis qui Confugimus ad Te.

The French artisan and jeweler Frederick Prudence Boucheron was designated by the former Count of Paris, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise to design and manufacture the Pontifical crown for the image, to which Boucheron also had a pious fanaticism to the purported Marian apparition coinciding to his own birth year in 1830.

Catherine Labouré declared that it was in front of the tabernacle that the Blessed Virgin Mary prostrated herself in the nights of 18 and 19 July 1830 and that she was above it during the third apparition in December 1830.

The incorrupt body of Catherine Labouré, member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and famous Marian visionary, also lies in a glass coffin at the side altar of the chapel.

The famed tabernacle , ivory crucifix and statue of the chapel, crowned by the decree of Pope Leo XIII on 2 March 1897
Pontifical crown of Pope Leo XIII decreed to the Marian image manufactured by French jeweler and artisan, Frédérick Prudence Boucheron (1830—1902).
The interior of the Chapel. The altar recalls the purported apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary seen levitating above the tabernacle.
Tomb with the incorrupt body of Catherine Labouré .
Tomb with the effigy of Louise de Marillac .