Archdiocese to Probe Claim of Miracle

[antonivs]

(June 29) – A panel appointed by the Archdiocese of Baltimore is about to take on a rare investigation – whether prayers to a 19th-century priest miraculously cured an Annapolis, Md., woman of terminal cancer, The Baltimore Sun reported.

The case is just the fifth such investigation in the archdiocese’s 200-year history. If the priest, Francis X. Seelos, is found to be behind the woman’s cure, it could move him closer to being declared a Roman Catholic saint. The pope will have the final say…

source: news.aol.com/article/maryland-priest-miracle/548131

I thought this was an interesting story.

 

[buffalo]

Baltimore Archdiocese to Examine Woman’s ‘Miracle’ Cancer Cure Tied to 19th-Century Priest

he Archdiocese of Baltimore plans to investigate whether an Annapolis woman’s cure from cancer was a miracle, a possible step toward sainthood for a 19th-Century priest.
Mary Ellen Heibel was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2004 and early 2005 for malignant tumors in her lungs, liver, stomach and chest. After she was diagnosed, Heibel began praying to Blessed Francis X. Seelos, and urging others to pray as well.
Heibel, whose cancer was terminal, experienced a recovery her doctors did not expect and can’t explain. She continues to pray to the priest, who served in Maryland before dying in Louisiana while treating yellow fever victims.

more…

 

[aicirt]

A woman has been cured of cancerous tumors. The cure is credited to Blessed Father Xavier Seelos, an American priest of the 19th century. She was interviewed this morning on Fox and Friends.

The woman had cancer of the esophagus with numerous tumors throughout her body. She had completed chemo with no success. She had been given a relic of the priest which she wore in a locket around her neck. She began praying to him and later her church led a series of novenas to him. When check-up tests were done, no trace of the tumors could be found. Her doctors have no idea how or why she was cured.

She has been invited to Rome with the hope that her miracle will be documented and will aid Father Seelos’ cause for cannonization.

 

[reggieM]

This is a great story of the power of God. Again, “no evidence”? Of course, atheists dismiss this entirely without ever doing any research. The doctors make statements about how they’ve never seen a healing like this.

I read the first news release on this story in the Baltimore Sun, and the comment box was full with some of the most resentful and hostile attacks from atheists and anti-Catholics.

Here’s a woman who was healed of a deadly disease and the atheists and evangelicals are full of rage and hatred against the Catholic Faith. Why not be joyful and glad that she is doing well now?

God makes His presence known through His saints and this is something that scientism, atheism and Protestant-fundamentalism cannot deal with.