Archangels, St. Michael, Uriel, St. Raphael Bracelet

I created this bracelet in an antique-style using three beautiful brazilian wood icons of Archangels St. Michael, Uriel and St. Raphael with amber color glass beads and brass color glass color and other religious medals.

ST. MICHAEL "God's Marshall"
URIEL "Fire of God"
ST. RAPHAEL "God Heals"
VINTAGE BRASS MEDALS

St. Alphonsus Liguori is often quoted as saying that "Devotion to St. Michael and the holy angels is a mark of predestination." This reason alone were certainly sufficient to induce us not to neglect their veneration. On the contrary, we should earnestly strive to cultivate their frienship, in which we ashall indeed be blessed, for no earthly friends can compare with them in goodness, in power and in love." Jesus is the head of the Angels

Virgin Mary Cameo Bracelet "Motherly Love"

I love this beautiful cameo with Our Blessed
Mother kissing Our Precious Baby Jesus showing "Motherly Love"

I used vintage and new on this bracelet surrounding it with mother of pearl and purple glass beads, purple pearls and many more religious medals, including Miraculous Medal, Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Ann and others

St. Michael Bracelet

Apparition of St. Michael, The Archangel on Monte Gargano, Italy

GOD'S MARSHALL
(Name means, "Who is like God" Glorious Saint Michael, guardian and defender of the Church of Jesus Christ)

"The very name of Michael urges us to honor this glorious spirit; it is a cry of enthusiasm and fidelity, for it signifies: "Who is like unto God?" Satan trembles at hearing this name, for it reminds him of the noble protest wherewith the bright Archangel answered the call of the rebel angels. Michael proved his strength and prowess when he fought the great battle in Heaven. From that hour he has been known as "Michael, the captain of the armies of God, first Prince of the Holy City, to whom the other angels yield ready obedience. They most willingly and gratefully recognize his supremacy, for after God, they owe to him their perseverance in grace and their eternal happiness. With loving submission, they receive from him their various offices. They are attentive to the slightest wish, because they recognize in his commands and regulations the will of God, their sovereign Lord and King.*
* St. Michael and the angels


St. Alphonsus Liguori is often quoted as saying that "Devotion to St. Michael and the holy angels is a mark of predestination." This reason alone were certainly sufficient to induce us not to neglect their veneration. On the contrary, we should earnestly strive to cultivate their friendship, in which we ashall indeed be blessed, for no earthly friends can compare with them in goodness, in power and in love." Jesus is the head of the Angels

Prayer to Saint Michael
Dear Saint Michael, your name means, "Who is like God?" and it indicates that you remained faithful when others rebelled against God. Help police officers in our day who strive to stem the rebellion and evil that are rampant on all sides. Keep them faithful to their God as well as to their country and their fellow human beings. Amen.
"Hail, bright Archangel, Prince of Heaven! Spirit divinely strong!
To whose rare merit hath been given to head the angelic throng".

On this picture above, there is an example that angels are always around us. I have always felt the presence of my angels. One day I was taking pictures of a laser cut crystal with the image of an angel, which is the center one, but when I uploaded my pictures, I was truly surprised of how this picture came out. If you notice on the top left corner of the picture, you can see the image of an angel with either, what appears to be a sword or spear and then notice the light running down below him. I was truly amazed.

I was inspired to create this bracelet with bold gemstones to represent St. Michael's strength. I also added a third class relic and a larger medal of St. Michael including those beautiful ornate angel wings.

Milagros Bracelet

MILAGROS
Milagros "Miracles" are small devotional charms that are traditionally used in most Latin American Countries. These votives are placed in small shrines, church, nichos, retablos, saints or altars. Milagros also refers to an ancient aspect of Hispanic Folk Culture: Small silver or gold votive offerings. A person attaches a Milagro to a saint for a special request of a miracle for a particular aliment of the body.

These devotional Milagros are still being fervently used in Latin America and the tradition was brought to the US. I have seen on a local Mission that these milagros are still attached to a Saint. I have also seen thank you notes, for miracle granted, attached to these milagros.

My inspiration on this bracelet was the stunning copper heart with patina finish, which can represent The Sacred Heart of Jesus, or human heart troubles, handcrafted in Peru and all the other milagro charms. How faith can grant you a miracle.

Holy Face of Jesus Relic- Touched to the Holy Shroud or Sudarium of Oviedo-

The Holy Shroud of Oviedo
The Sudarium is referred to in John 20:5-8.
The Sudarium of Oviedo, or Shroud of Oviedo, is a bloodstained cloth, 34" x 21", kept in the cathedral of Oviedo, Spain and claimed to be the cloth that was wrapped around the head of Jesus of Nazareth after He died.

ADORABLE FACE OF JESUS
Adorable Face of Jesus, whom all the angels adore,
may You be known, loved and adored by the whole world.
Sacred Face of Jesus, I desire to love and honor You more and more,
in reparation for the many sins committed before You.
O Sacred Face of Jesus veiled in the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar;
I Adore You and Love You.

I feel so blessed to have been able to find this special relic touched to the Holy Shroud or Sudarium of Oviedo that I was able to use to create a bracelet as a reminder of Our Lord's ultimate sacrifice. I used natural ruby quartz gemstone to represent His Precious Blood and also a reminder of how His Precious Blood paid the price for our salvation.

Virgin Mary "Queen of Heaven"

MARIAN PRAYER OF ST. THERESE DE LISIEUX
The Depths of the Love of Your Heart Virgin full of grace, I know that at Nazareth
you lived modestly, without requesting anything more. Neither ecstasies, nor miracles, nor other extra ordinary deeds enhanced your life, O Queen of the elect. The number of the lowly, "the little ones," is very great on earth.

They can raise their eyes to you without any fear. You are the incomparable Mother
who walks with them along the common way to guide them to heaven. Beloved Mother,
in this harsh exile, I want to live always with you and follow you every day. I am enraptured by the contemplation of you and I discover the depths of the love of your heart.
All my fears vanish under your motherly gaze, which teaches me to weep and to rejoice!
Amen.

This bracelet I created in honor to Our Beautiful Blessed Mother "Queen of Heaven" using a stunning porcelain cameo with a vintage of Virgin Mary being crowned by two angels. I surrounded the cameo with pearls and porcelain beads that enhance the cameo and also adding more religious medals.

Our Lady of Miraculous Medal

"The Blessed Virgin was standing on a globe, and her face was beautiful beyond words. Her fingers were covered with precious jewels whose light dazzled me. And I heard: 'Behold the symbol of the graces I shed upon those who ask for them!' Then an oval frame formed around the Blessed Virgin and I read in letters of gold: 'O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.' The vision reversed and I beheld the letter 'M' surmounted by a cross, at the foot of the cross, a bar, and below all, the Heart of Jesus crowned with thorns, and the Heart of Mary pierced with a sword. A voice said to me, 'Have a medal struck after this model. Persons who wear it will receive great graces, especially if they wear it around the neck.' "Sister (now Saint) Catherine Labour".
THE RAYS BEING DISPERSED BY OUR LADY OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL CAME FROM THE GEMSTONES ON HER FINGERS

I found this gorgeous medal of Our Lady of Miraculous Medal that I just love making a bracelet in Her honor surrounding her with flowers and angels, I also added to this bracelet some beautiful aqua color glass lampwork beads to make it more uplifting.

St. Philomena

PATRONAGE: babies,children, children of Mary, desperate causes, forgotten causes, impossible causes, infants, infertility, lost causes, Living Rosary, newborns, poor people, priests, sick people, sickness, sterility, toddlers, young people, youth.

Martyred at about age 14 in the early days of the Church.

On this bracelet I was inspired by her youthful spirit of a young woman. Creating this bracelet with pink glass lampwork hearts and swarvoski crystal butterflies surrounding her relic and other religious medals.

St. Padre Pio

On September 20, 1918, while hearing confessions, Padre Pio is said to have had his first occurrence of stigmata —bodily marks, pain, and bleeding in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ. This phenomenon allegedly continued for fifty years, until the end of his life. The blood flowing from the stigmata is said to have smelled of perfume or flowers, a phenomenon mentioned in stories of the lives of several saints and often referred to as the odour of sanctity.
His stigmata, regarded by some as evidence of holiness, was studied by physicians whose independence from the Church is not known. The observations were reportedly unexplainable and the wounds never infected. It was reputed, however, that his condition caused him great embarrassment, and most photographs show him with red mittens or black coverings on his hands and feet where the bleedings occurred.
At Padre Pio's death in 1968, his body appeared unwounded, with no sign of scarring. There was even a report that doctors who examined his body found it empty of all blood. *
*Wikipedia

This bracelet I created in honor of St. Padre Pio includes a slide rose with a 3rd class relic medal surrounded by other religious medals and lots of lampwork beads.

Immaculate Heart of Mary

I was inspired to create this beautiful bracelet to make honor to Our Most beautiful Sacred Heart of Mary. The image on the cameo has a very peaceful and loving image of Our Blessed Mother of the Sacred Heart.

I wanted to add some hearts and found these beautiful cinnabar hearts enhanced with red flowers surrounding Her image.

I also added more religious medals to this bracelet

Our Lady of The Sacred Heart
Remember, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, what ineffable power thy divine Son hath given thee over His own adorable Heart. Full of trust in thy merits, we come before thee and beg thy protection. O heavenly Treasurer of the Heart of Jesus, that Heart which is the inexhaustible source of all graces, which thou mayest open to us at thy good pleasure, in order that from it may flow forth upon mankind the riches of love and mercy, light and salvation, that are contained therein; grant unto us, we beseech thee, the favors which we seek. . . . We can never, never be refused by thee, and since thou art our Mother, O our Lady of the Sacred Heart, graciously hear our prayers and grant our request. Amen

Milagros Bracelet

MILAGROS
Milagros "Miracles" are small devotional charms that are traditionally used in most Latin American Countries. These votives are placed in small shrines, church, nichos, retablos, saints or altars.
Milagros also refers to an ancient aspect of Hispanic Folk Culture: Small silver or gold votive offerings.
A person attaches a Milagro to a saint for a special request of a miracle for a particular aliment of the body.

I visit an old Mission, San Xavier Mission, which is approx. 20 minutes south of Tucson and the tradition and devotion is still vivid, where I still see these milagro charms attached to the sacred statues of the Saints on the Mission, which I also see many letters thanking God for the miracles obtained.

I created this bracelet with that inspiration that a milagro charm can be a reminder that God will grant a miracle in your life with faith and devotion. I added a large solid 3D heart milagro, handcrafted in Mexico.

St. Therese Relic Bracelet

Patronage AIDS sufferers; air crews; aircraft pilots; , ; florists; flower growers; foreign missions; illness; missionaries; parish missions; sick people; sickness;

Carmelite of Lisieux, better known as the Little Flower of Jesus, born at Alençon, France, 2 January, 1873; died at Lisieux 30 September, 1897.

St. Thérèse In her quest for sanctity, she realized that it was not necessary to accomplish heroic acts, or "great deeds", in order to attain holiness and to express her love of God. She wrote,
"Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love."

On this bracelet, I was inspired to add flowers to make honor to her title as "Little Flower of Jesus" I also added a small copper cameo of St. There's picture. I included other Catholic Medals surrounded by flowers and glass leaves.

St. Peregrine

PATRON SAINT FOR CANCER PATIENTS

St. Peregrine Laziosi
Peregrine Laziosi was born of a wealthy family at Forli, Italy, in 1260. . Following the instructions of the Virgin Mary received in a vision, Peregrine went to Siena and joined the Servites. It is believed that he never allowed himself to sit down for thirty years, while as far as possible, observing silence and solitude. Sometime later, Peregrine was sent to Forli to found a new house of the Servite Order. An ideal priest, he had a reputation for fervent preaching and being a good confessor. When he was afflicted with cancer of the foot and amputation had been decided upon, he spent the night before the operation, in prayer. The following morning he was completely cured. Once given the grace of conversion he became one of the great saints of his time. His great fervor and qualities as a confessor brought many back to the true Faith. Afflicted with cancer, Peregrine turned to God and was richly rewarded for his Faith, enabling him over many years to lead others to the truth. He is the patron of cancer patients.

This is a very special bracelet for those suffering of cancer. When I create a St. Peregrine's bracelet, I like to add some feminine charms like in this one, shoes, dresses, purses and other times other charms as a reminder of no matter what you are going thru, even cancer, you are still a beautiful person and I also added a faith charm, because your faith will get you thru this difficult time.

Ecce Homo- Jesus Christ Cameo Bracelet

This is a bracelet I created as a reminder of the ultimate sacrifice Our Lord made for us. I added a resin cameo of Our Lord Jesus with crown of thorns "Ecce Homo" Behold The Man.

I surrounded this bracelet with other religious medals, lampwork beads and pearls. Just has a very special feel to it.

PRAYER

O God the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: we beseech you, leave us not comfortless, but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us and exalt us to the place where our Saviour Christ is gone before, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy

Spirit,one God, now and for ever.Amen.

Our Lady of Lourdes

Our Lady of Lourdes: France, 1858
Our Lady appeared to 14 year old Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, 18 times from February through July, 1858. During the apparitions she told Bernadette to dig a hole which later in the day produced a stream of water, bringing about thousands of spiritual and physical cures even to this day. Mary pleaded for "penitence! Penitence! Penitence!" and urged us to "Pray to God for sinners". She called herself the "Immaculate Conception".

HOLY WATER OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES
O ever Immaculate Virgin, mother of mercy, health of the sick, refuge of sinners, comforter of the afflicted, you know my needs, my troubles, my sufferings, cast me a look of pity. By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it a priviledged sanctuary, whence you dispense your favours, and already many sufferers have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and corporal, I come, therefore, with the most unbounded confidence & implore your maternal intercession.

This is a very special bracelet that I love creating in honor to Our Blessed Mother of Lourdes. I attach a medal with water. I also added a one decade rosary bracelet to the charm bracelet. Mainly when I create one for Our Lady of Lourdes, most of the time I'm inspired to create one with blue and white crystals representing the water and pink associated with the roses.

Our Lady of Knock

Our Lady, Saint Joseph and Saint John the Evangelist appeared in a blaze of light at the south gable of Saint John the Baptist Church, Knock, County Mayo, Ireland . They appeared to float about two feet above the ground, and each would occassionally move toward the visionaries, and then away from them. The Blessed Virgin Mary was clothed in white robes with a brilliant crown on her head. Where the crown fitted to her brow, she wore a beautiful full-bloom golden rose. She was praying with her eyes and hands raised towards Heaven. Saint Joseph wore white robes, stood on Our Lady’s right, and was turned towards her in an attitude of respect. Saint John was dressed in white vestment, stood was on Mary’s left, and resembled a bishop, with a small mitre. He appeared to be preaching and he held an open book in his left hand. Behind them and a little to the left of Saint John was a plain altar on which was a cross and a lamb with adoring angels. The apparition was witnessed by fifteen people. Miraculous healings reported soon after the area, and it is now a major pilgrimage destination.

I love how this bracelet came out with the beautiful lamwork beads and pearls enhancing all of the medals.

St. Francis Cabrini

Filled with a deep trust in God and endowed with a wonderful administrative ability, this remarkable woman soon founded schools, hospitals, and orphanages in this strange land and saw them flourish in the aid of Italian immigrants and children. At the time of her death, at Chicago, Illinois on December 22, 1917, her institute numbered houses in England, France, Spain, the United States, and South America. In 1946, she became the first American citizen to be canonized when she was elevated to sainthood by Pope Pius XII. St. Frances is the patroness of immigrants.

I created this bracelet to honor St. Cabrini, a remarkable woman with other religious medals including a holy family cross, Sacred Heart of Jesus and others which I also added beautiful wedding cake glass lampwork beads.

Archangels Charm Bracelet

St. Alphonsus Liguori is often quoted as saying that "Devotion to St. Michael and the holy angels is a mark of predestination." This reason alone were certainly sufficient to induce us not to neglect their veneration. On the contrary, we should earnestly strive to cultivate their frienship, in which we ashall indeed be blessed, for no earthly friends can compare with them in goodness, in power and in love." Jesus is the head of the Angels

Prayer to Saint Michael
Dear Saint Michael, your name means, "Who is like God?" and it indicates that you remained faithful when others rebelled against God. Help police officers in our day who strive to stem the rebellion and evil that are rampant on all sides. Keep them faithful to their God as well as to their country and their fellow human beings. Amen.
"Hail, bright Archangel, Prince of Heaven! Spirit divinely strong!
To whose rare merit hath been given to head the angelic throng".

I created this beautiful bracelet with three stunning Brazilian wood icon pictures of St. Michael, Uriel and St. Raphael. I also added other Religious medals and colorful wedding cake glass beads to enhance the pictures of the Archangels.