The "miraculous" recovery of Jory Aebly, 26-who suffered a "non-survivable" gunshot to the head during a mugging in Cleveland- has been attributed to the intercession of Pope John Paul II. Doctors at the Metro Health Medical Center declared it to be a "non-survivable" injury, ABC’s Good Morning America reports.
According to CNA
Pope John Paul appears well on the way to canonization. One miracle is required for beatification and a second for canonization. Church officials are investigating all three occurrences. The certification of two miracles would ensure canonization.
According to CNA
Hospital chaplain Fr. Art Snedeker administered Aebly with the Sacrament of the Sick, asking Pope John Paul II to pray for Jory and to protect him.
Fr. Snedeker explained that the Pope had promised him he would always pray for the patients at the hospital and blessed a dozen rosaries with special patients at the hospital.
The priest gave Aebly the last of the rosaries that had been blessed by the Pope, after which Aebly consistently improved.....Dr. Robert Geertman, a neurosurgeon involved in Aebly's treatment, told Good Morning America his patient’s survival was "one in a million."
Two other miracles are attributed to the intercession of Pope John Paul II
- In March 2007, a French nun, Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre, said she had been cured of Parkinson's disease after praying to John Paul.
- AOL News reports that John Paul may have cured a 9-year-old Polish boy who had been unable to walk, said Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the personal secretary of the late pontiff.
Dziwisz -- who now heads John Paul’s old diocese of Krakow, Poland -- said the boy had been unable to walk because of a kidney ailment. But a few days ago, the youngster's parents brought him to John Paul's tomb in the grottoes of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
"He was brought in a wheelchair because he wasn't able to walk," Dziwisz said. After praying at the tomb, the cardinal said, the boy told his parents "'I want to walk.' He got up and started walking, healthy."
Pope John Paul appears well on the way to canonization. One miracle is required for beatification and a second for canonization. Church officials are investigating all three occurrences. The certification of two miracles would ensure canonization.
