His name was Alphonse Ratisbonne. The year was 1842.
The 28 year old Jew was converted to the Catholic Church in one fulminating blow; at the moment that the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him in the Basilica of St. Andrea delle Fratte in Rome.
The altar before which Alphonse received the apparition of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.
Details of this miraculous conversion can be found here:
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