Today is the feast of St. Catherine Laboure. This statue is located in the Shrine of the Miraculous Medal in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, but I was unable to discover the photographer of the image. This shows what it was like the first time that Our Lady appeared to St. Catherine Laboure. The Blessed Mother sat in a chair (which is still revered in Paris) and St. Catherine knelt beside her and talked to her of everything in her heart.

Throughout Catherine's life:

"Everything she did bore the stamp of cheerful joyousness and ardent love for God and His Blessed Mother. She believed in the maxim that 'if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well.' She supernaturalized that maxim by adding the motive of doing everything for God; and the way she judged whether or not a thing was worth doing at all was whether or not God willed it."

~ Edward J. Farren, from the chapter on Catherine Laboure in Heroines of Christ edited by Joseph Husslein, SJ, Ph.D., imprimatur 1939.