Our Lady's Miraculous Wedding Ring

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Miracle: Our Lady's Wedding Ring

The small Italian town of Perugia attracts hundreds of thousands of people every year to its chocolate festival, but deep inside the cathedral there, layered under locks taking fourteen different keys to open, is something infinitely more marvelous than Perugia’s fine chocolate.

What is thought to be the wedding ring of Our Lady has miraculously found its home in the cathedral there. Today I’ll tell you that mysterious and incredible story.

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Since today is the solemnity of Saint Joseph, the husband of Our Lady, I thought this particular story seems a fitting way to honor the marriage of Our Lady and Saint Joseph.

According to legend, around the year one thousand there lived in Chiusi, Italy a goldsmith named Ainerio. One day Ainerio was given a gift more precious than he at first realized—the sacred wedding ring of the Blessed Virgin Mary—a treasure indeed!

This ring was given to him by a Jewish merchant of precious stones, and had been passed down through generations of that family. Well, interestingly, the merchant wanted to be rid of the ring. You see, Our Lady had appeared to him in a dream and he wasn’t willing to abandon his Jewish beliefs. So he warned the goldsmith Ainerio to venerate the ring as a holy object. But Ainerio didn’t fully believe the merchant’s story.

Nevertheless, he put the ring in the family crypt for safekeeping. Fast forward a few years. Ainerio sat next to his young son who had just died. Suddenly, the deceased boy rose from his bed to reprimand his father for neglecting the precious relic. Shocked by this event, Ainerio donated the ring to the nearby convent of Santa Mustiola near Chiusi where it could be venerated publicly.

The next part of our story goes like this. In July of 1473, a friar named Vinterio, originally from Germany, walked the streets of Perugia, Italy, with Our Lady’s wedding ring in his shoulder bag. Fra. Vinterio had just been in prison after being accused of stealing a gold chalice. In prison, he was ill-treated, so he could think of no better revenge than to deprive the people of Chiusi of their most cherished treasure, the Blessed Mother’s wedding ring.

On July 23rd, he hid in the convent’s church until nighttime, when he stole the ring. He remained in Chiusi for six days, then before the theft could be discovered, he headed toward Assisi.

When he was halfway to Assisi, he encountered a thick fog and had to stop in the nearby city of Perugia. That night as he stayed at his friend’s house, he regretted everything and even began to fear handling the relic.

So Fra. Vinterio’s friend, Luca Delle Mine, gave it to the city authorities at Perugia, who gratefully accepted the relic. Pope Sixtus IV soon granted his blessing and authorized the exposition of the ring in the cathedral of Perugia. And Fra. Vinterio was later arrested for sacrilegious theft.

The ring itself is made of chalcedony quartz, a semi-transparent material used in biblical times for common household objects like cups and bowls, but also for beads and rings. Being that the Holy Family was poor, it makes sense to me that Saint Joseph would use a chalcedony material for Our Lady’s betrothal ring, because it’s not as valuable as many other precious stones.

And it’s interesting to note that in the 18th century, the German mystic Anne Catherine Emerich had a vision of the Blessed Virgin’s wedding ring. She saw it as iridescent, thick, and behind many locks in a beautiful church—all features that match the ring in Perugia.

While we don’t have an absolute certainty that the ring in Perugia belonged to the Blessed Virgin Mary, countless miracles have occurred related to the ring.

Now, pilgrims from all over the world come to pray before the relic to heal their diseases, especially eye diseases. And in a special way, engaged couples touch their wedding rings to it, praying to Our Lady for a holy and happy marriage.

Consider how many people could experience a conversion of faith through Our Lady, if only they could encounter her loving and maternal message at Fatima?

Miracle: Our Lady's Wedding Ring

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