OK, so I’ve been doing this #31dayrosarychallenge to propagate devotion to Our Lady and her rosary. I’ve been posting selfies of me holding a Rosary and saying something to Twitter, my Facebook and the Unofficial Militia of the Immaculata Facebook Group I admin. Today’s post is about my ‘miraculous’ Militia of the Immaculata baseball cap. I figured I should explain why it’s miraculous since the story wouldn’t fit on Twitter. Neither would an image of a Rosary; I couldn’t fit one of me holding it while wearing this cap.

Here’s a photo of it:

Why’s it miraculous? Well, I bought the cap about twenty years ago sometime after I joined the MI on 7 October 2002. I bought a lot of MI and St. Max Kolbe stuff (books, etc.) and I figured this ball cap with the logo of the Miraculous Medal (back view image) on the front would be great.

The hat is NOT miraculous because it has the Miraculous Medal image. After I had worn it for a few years it was getting torn; the bill was becoming separated from the rest of it. I did not want to throw it away and so I just placed it in an old footlocker for safe keeping. This was maybe around 2005? It hadn’t gotten worn much and after 2-3 years was already deteriorating, but still I didn’t have the heart to junk it.

In 2008, after I had gotten married, for some reason I decided to show it to my wife. I pulled it out of the footlocker and looked at it. 

There was nothing wrong with it! The bill was attached to the cap and there was no sign of repair; no stitching or anything to indicate that someone had fixed it. 

I’ve worn it fairly often since then. It’s now 2022 and it’s gotten a lot of wear in these 14 years. It looks just as good as it did when I pulled it out of the footlocker.

Weird. But I’ll take miracles in any way and for whatever reason the Lord decides to grant them! (Why a hat, though?)

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