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This is what happened to the first mother twenty years ago:
“A child — a baby girl, in Brescia, Italy — was dying in her mother’s womb following a break in the placenta, the lifeline through which nourishment and oxygen is provided. If this occurs early on, the loss of vital nutrients mean that the child cannot survive or will be seriously brain-damaged. The placenta cannot heal itself if it has become tangled or broken, nor can the child resolve the problem.
Explaining that the child would be either stillborn or gravely brain-damaged, doctors offered the mother an abortion. But she refused, and instead went with her husband, on the advice of friends, to a shrine in Brescia associated with Blessed Paul VI. Here they prayed and asked for his intercession. Their baby girl was in due course safely delivered – prematurely but with no brain-damage or other serious problems – and is now a healthy 3-year-old.” (from National Catholic Register, in article, “Blessed Paul VI and the Unborn Child”)
Then in 2014, another woman, originally from the province of Verona, Italy, had an illness that risked her own life and the life of her unborn child, and was advised to have an abortion. Because she heard of the first miracle, a few days after the beatification of Paul VI in 2014 she went to pray to him at the Shrine of Holy Mary of Grace in the town of Brescia. The baby girl was later born in good health, and remains in good health today."
The healing was ruled as medically inexplicable by the medical council of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes last year. (from Aleteia, in article, “Pope known for teaching on birth control brings healing of another unborn baby.”)
These two miracles have made it possible for Pope Paul VI to be canonized, officially declared a saint, this coming October.
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