Wednesday, April 28, 2010

St Peregrine Relic, Saints Religious Medals Bracelet


Patron Saint of Cancer Patients
Prayer to Saint Peregrine For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fiber of our being, and who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favoured with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Lady, the cure of the sick whom we entrust to you. (Pause here and silently recall the names of the sick for whom you are praying)
O great St. Peregrine, you have been called "The Mighty," "The Wonder-Worker," because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you.


I created another bracelet honoring St. Peregrine including a 3rd class relic medal of St. Peregrine. Other Catholic medals include Italian medals Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Padre Pio and others.

I included natural Rose quartz, known for it's peaceful appearance and feel to it.

Holding the relic is a beautiful lampwork heart bead.



Sunday, April 25, 2010

(Patronage: Desperate situations; forgotten causes; hospitals, hospital workers; impossible causes)
Prayer to Saint Jude Thaddeus
Glorious Saint Jude, with faith in your goodness I ask your help today. As one of Christ's chosen Apostles, you are a pillar and foundation of His Church on earth. You are among the elders who stand always before God's throne. Brother Jude, you are renowned for your kinship with Christ and your physical resemblance to our Savior. Help me remain close to Christ and resemble Him in my outlook and actions. Holy Apostle, you are venerated for your work of preaching the gospel and your faithfulness to Christ by a martyr's death. Assist me to preach the good news of Christ by word and example, and remain steadfast in His service as you were. From your place of glory, do not forget the needs and difficulties of Christ's little ones like me, still struggling on the way home to God. Pray for me that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in my necessities, tribulations and sufferings, particularly (name special problem) and that I may praise God with you and all the elect forever. Intercede for us all, gracious, brother Saint Jude, and pray for us to the Lord our God in our daily toil and our necessities.
Amen.

I still remember so well my first experience with St. Jude. After I had a dream that I must work with medals four years ago, it was like a week after that that I experience someone coming in to my room, all I could see was an outline of an older large man wearing a cloak and in a very polite and soft voice, bowing his head, he introduced himself as St. Jude and was grateful for making a bracelet in his honor.

I was in awe, like I get all of the time when I have a wonderful spiritual experience. Most of the time I also get teary eyed and don't know what to respond. But he left immediately, I can never forget that experience and continues to be one of my inspirations to continue making my creations.

On this particular bracelet, I added a unique relic medal and other Catholic medals include Archangel St. Gabriel, St. Benedict, Divine Child, Our Lady of Sorrows with St. Peregrine, St. Francis of Assisi with St. Anthony and Our Lady of Fatima.

I also included very unique angel beads made of glass. I added larger green glass lampwork beads and colorful glass beads and peach color pearls to give it a vibrant look.



Monday, April 19, 2010

Virgin Mary, Saints Religious Medals Charm Bracelet

Apparition
The official account of the Aparecida apparition took place in October 1717, when Dom Pedro de Almeida, Count of Assumar and Governor of the Province of Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais, was passing through the area of Guarantinqueta, a small city in the Paraiba river valley, during a trip to Vila Rica , an important gold mining site.
The people of Guaratinguetá decided to hold a feast in his honor, and though it was not fishing season, the fishermen went down to the Paraíba waters in order to fish for the feast Three of the fishermen, Domingos Garcia, João Alves, and Filipe Pedroso, prayed to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, and asked God's help.They were unable to catch any fish, and after several hours in the river, they were ready to give up when João casted his net once more near the Port of Itaguaçu.Instead of fish, he hauled in the body of a statue with a missing head. They casted their net again, and brought up the statue's head. After cleaning the statue, they found that it was a black version of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.
[Legend has it that when the fishermen recovered the body, then the head, the slender figure of the Aparecida Virgin became so heavy that they couldn't budge it.
After that, according to the official account, they named their find Nossa Senhora da Aparecida Conceição (English: Our Lady of the Appeared Conception), wrapped it in cloth and continued to fish; now their catch was so great that they returned to port because the weight of the fish threatened to sink their craft.This was the first miracle attributed to Our Lady of Aparecida.*
*Wikipedia

I was given this beautiful and unique medal of Our Lady of Aparecida to create a bracelet with and I truly love the image and found that Her history to be fascinating.
I love the detail on Her mantle and crown.
She measures approx. 2". I added other Catholic medals, including Just Judge, Seven Powers medal with seven Saints, a tiny pocket statue of St. Jude attached to a very unique charm.
Beads include beautiful teal color glass wedding cake lampwork beads and glass pearls.
This is a close up of the medal of Our Lady of Aparecida to show the wonderful detail on her Mantle.




St. Benedict Relic Saints Religious Medals Bracelet


PATRONAGE: Against evil, witchcraft; against poison; agricultural workers; carvers; civil engineers; coppersmiths; dying people

I created this bracelet honoring St. Benedict using a 3rd class relic medal of St. Benedict. I also used other Catholic medals including St. Francis of Assisi, St. Padre Pio, Our Lady of Lourdes with St. Bernadette, St. Jude, Divine Child and others.
I used natural onyx "Biblical Stone" ONYX: Religious Meaning: This stone is mentioned in the Bible (Gen. 2:8, 10-12) as one of the stones in the Garden of Eden. I also added several turquoise beads and glass pearls.




Monday, April 12, 2010

St. Jude Relic, Saints Religious Medals Charm Bracelet


Prayer to Saint Jude Thaddeus
Glorious Saint Jude, with faith in your goodness I ask your help today. As one of Christ's chosen Apostles, you are a pillar and foundation of His Church on earth. You are among the elders who stand always before God's throne. Brother Jude, you are renowned for your kinship with Christ and your physical resemblance to our Savior. Help me remain close to Christ and resemble Him in my outlook and actions. Holy Apostle, you are venerated for your work of preaching the gospel and your faithfulness to Christ by a martyr's death. Assist me to preach the good news of Christ by word and example, and remain steadfast in His service as you were. From your place of glory, do not forget the needs and difficulties of Christ's little ones like me, still struggling on the way home to God. Pray for me that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in my necessities, tribulations and sufferings, particularly (name special problem) and that I may praise God with you and all the elect forever. Intercede for us all, gracious, brother Saint Jude, and pray for us to the Lord our God in our daily toil and our necessities. Amen.

On this bracelet I created in honor of St. Jude I added a very unique two-tone relic medal of St. Jude.

I also added a St. Christopher key charm. Other Catholic medals added are St. Valentine, Infant of Prague, St. Benedict, Archangel St. Gabriel, Our Lady of Czestochowa and others.

On beads, I added beautiful pastel mint green glass beads and gorgeous deep green aurora borealis faceted crystals. They are just so unique and add so much sparkle to the bracelet.



Virgin Mary, Saints Religious Medals Charm Bracelet


May we be assisted,
we beseech Thee,
O Lord,
by the worshipful intercession
of Thy glorious Mother,
the ever-Virgin Mary;
that we, who have been enriched
by Her perpetual blessings,
may be delivered from all dangers,
and through Her loving kindness
made to be of one heart and mind:
Who livest and reignest world without end.
Amen.


I created this beautiful bracelet honoring Our Beautiful Virgin Mary. I added a beautiful image of Our Lady with crown, just stunning image, so loving and peaceful.
I embraced the image with glass pearls and beautiful Czech. clear glass beads.
Medals include a figural medal of Jesus with crown of thorns, Four Way Cross, Infant of Prague, St Rita, Archangel St. Gabriel and others.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Virgin Mary OL Rosary Altered Art Religious Necklace

Virgin, most holy, Mother of the Word Incarnate, Treasurer of graces, and Refuge of sinners, I fly top your motherly affection with lively faith, and I beg of you the grace ever to do the will of God. Into your most holy hands I commit the keeping of my heart, asking you for health of soul and body, in the certain hope that you, my most loving Mother, will hear my prayer. Into the bosom of your tender mercy, this day, every day of my life, and at the hour of my death, I commend my soul and body. To you I entrust all my hopes and consolations, all my trials and miseries,my life and the end of my life, that all my actions may be ordered and disposed according to your will and that of your Divine Son. Amen.



I created another altered art locket shrine necklace in honor of Our Blessed Mother, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Our Lady of Miraculous Medal and St. Joseph.
I also added a one decade rosary I created with beautiful crystals and a vintage porcelain cross.
Inside locket I added a tiny pocket statue of St. Joseph, vintage rosary beads from broken rosary and an image of Our Lady of Miraculous Medal
I added this beautiful and unique brass medal depicting the Annunciation








Tuesday, April 6, 2010

OL Perpetual Help, Saints Religious Medals Bracelet

Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
(Or OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP.)
It represents the Mother of God holding the Divine Child while the Archangels Michael and Gabriel present before Him the instruments of His Passion. Over the figures in the picture are some Greek letters which form the abbreviated words Mother of God, Jesus Christ, Archangel Michael, and Archangel Gabriel respectively. It was brought to Rome towards the end of the fifteenth century by a pious merchant, who, dying there, ordered by his will that the picture should be exposed in a church for public veneration. It was exposed in the church of San Matteo, Via Merulana, between St. Mary Major and St. John Lateran. Crowds flocked to this church, and for nearly three hundred years many graces were obtained through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin. The picture was then popularly called the Madonna di San Matteo. The church was served for a time by the Hermits of St. Augustine, who had sheltered their Irish brethren in their distress. These Augustinians were still in charge when the French invaded Rome (1812) and destroyed the church. The picture disappeared; it remained hidden and neglected for over forty years, but a series of providential circumstances between 1863 and 1865 led to its discovery in an oratory of the Augustinian Fathers at Santa Maria in Posterula. *Catholic Encyclopedia


I created this beautiful bracelet in honor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, by creating a beautiful altered art pendant with a color Icon of Our Blessed Mother.
I used vintage and new medals including Our Lady of the Rosary, St. Ann, Angel, Four Way Cross and others including a Papal Crucifix.
Beads include lampwork, glass pearls and crystals

Monday, April 5, 2010

OL Guadalupe Altered Art Religious Saint Medal Bracelet


PATRONESS OF THE UNBORN


PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE


O Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas,grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings,with the same love with which You conceived in Your womb the life of the Son of God.Blessed Virgin Mary,Mother of Fair Love,protect our families so that they may always be united and bless the upbringing of our children.Our hope, look upon us with pity,teach is to go continually to Jesus,and if we fall help us to rise again and return to Him through the confession of our faults and our sins in the Sacrament of penance, which gives peace to the soul.We beg You to grant us a great love of all the holy Sacraments,which are, as it were,the signs that Your Son left us on earth.Thus, Most Holy Mother,with the peace of God in our consciences,with our hearts free from evil and hatred,we will be able to bring to all others true joy and peace,which come to us from Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,who with the Father and the Holy Spirit,lives and reigns for ever and ever.Amen.(Pope John Paul II.)



Three days ago I had a dream of Our Lady of Guadalupe, my dream was that She was just present and I was just in awe but I found myself not saying anything just looking at Her beauty humble face and She has been in my mind so frequent, like trying to tell me that She wanted another bracelet in Her honor, that usually happens to me, when I have Our Blessed Mother or a particular Saint in my mind constantly or Their picture keeps coming up, it's time to make a bracelet in Their honor.


On this particular day I had a special energy surge while creating a necklace and then I was inspired to create this bracelet and to my surprise, I notices something white on a couple of the pictures and for a moment I thought may be a scratch on the actual picture behind the dome buy when I checked the bracelet, everything is perfect.

I usually take several pictures of the same bracelet to choose the right one for the listing.


I then made the image larger to see that it appears to be a glowing light and on the following pictures seems to be disappearing, also appears like tears


The following pictures show a close up of the actual pendant
This is the last picture I took of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe where the light seems to diminish.


Today April 15, 2010, After enlarging the picture and printing it, I was amazed that the light on the first picture appears to be a figure of a person carrying something on their left hand and like a staff on right hand. Today, by coincidence, I came across two pictures of St. Juan Diego that to my amazement, it resembles the image on Our Lady's beautiful face.