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Patron saint medals are time-honored symbols of Christian faith and devotion that conflict sharply with the materialism of this modern, secular secular world.

To wear a medal portraying the image of a person who has been dead perhaps for centuries, but whom you believe can still have influence on your day-to-day activities, is considered incredible superstition by many, if not most, members of our materialistic society.

Those who do not totally reject the belief in saints are still likely to look askance at a patron saint medal hanging in a friend’s car and feel some measure of awkwardness or even embarrassment.

However, there was a time when faith in saints and the spiritual world they inhabit was as commonly accepted as the faith in the cycles of nature.

No one doubts that summer will lead to fall, then winter and spring…then summer again.

With the same assurance, much of the world in times past believed that a righteous person lived on beyond the grave in the heavenly realm, where, according to their degree of holiness on earth, they possessed special graces of intercession before the throne of God.

The secular world, mired in self-serving pleasures and pursuits, is unable to accept the fact that our lives on earth have a purpose that points to an eternal life beyond this earthly one. Such a thought is too confrontational.

Wearing patron saint medals proclaims the belief that others have indeed lived holy lives in complete submission to God. And, furthermore, their submission was so total that from heaven they are able to dynamically interact with those of us who offer them honor and veneration.

Patron saint medals – these symbols of faith and devotion – will always perplex the secular world, while serving as a reminder to the faithful of their eternal connection to the graces of heaven.

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