It may be worn about the neck, attached to the scapular or the rosary, or otherwise carried devoutly about one’s person.  For the sick it can be placed on wounds, dipped in medicine or in water which is given to them to drink.

The Medal is frequently put into the foundation of house or in the walls, hung over doors, or fastened on stables and barns to call down God’s protection and blessing.  It is also buried in fields, as the saintly Father Paul of Moll advised his friends to do.

No particular prayers are prescribed, for the very wearing and use of the Medal is considered a silent prater to God to grant us, through the merits of St. Benedict, the favors we request.  However, for obtaining extraordinary favors, it is highly recommended to perform special devotion in honor of the holy Father St. Benedict, for instance, on Tuesday, on which the Church commemorates the death of the holy Patriarch.  The Way of the Cross is also highly recommended, or a novena to St. Benedict.  His feast is celebrated March 21st, two days after the feast of St. Joseph.

Originally published in 1910 b the Benedictine Convent of Clyde, Missouri as part of the book Father Paul of Moll: A Flemish Benedictine and Wonder-Worker of the Nineteenth Century, by Edward van Speybrouck.

Nihil Obstat: Frowinus, Abbas Neo-Angelo Montanus
Imprimatur: +Mauritius, Episcopus Sancti Josephi, St. Joseph, Missouri, March 4, 1910