Are There True Miracles in Medicine?
August 25, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
We hear and read of them: miracle cures ranging from tumors that have disappeared to the sickest of babies pulling through without any after effects of their illness or complications. Many of these miracles are due to the power of prayer, say the devout. Can this really happen?
A woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) says that it can and has happened to her. Fifty-year-old Italian Antonia Raco was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease and has been wheelchair bound for the past four years. Earlier this month, she visited the a shrine in Lourdes, France, a popular site for Roman Catholic pilgrims. Many who are ill or disabled visit the site to pray for miracles.
Records over the past many decades offer several examples of miracles performed at Lourdes.
According to this news article, Woman with ALS reports healing at Lourdes,
She visited the Roman Catholic Shrine of St. Bernadette in France Aug. 5 and said she was in a healing bath when she felt a pain in her legs and a voice encouraging her.
”Ever since I came back I have been walking, doing everything normally,” Antonia Raco, 50, told ANSA news service.
What do you think? Is this a miracle, or could it be something else?
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I’m not saying I wouldn’t believe in a miracle, after all I believe that if you believe in it enough it’ll happen. I recently watched the movie with Robin Williams in it called, “Awakening” and it was based off a true story. The people there were (looked to be) frozen in time, but for a brief time period they were able to do things they hadn’t in years, then suddenly it was gone again. No one was ever able to say what caused it or took it away, but it did happen. So yes, I believe in miracles and it sounds like this woman believed in it enough that it cured her.
Yes, I believe in miracles. I know a woman that had a grape fruit sized tumor. She had a church pray for her on Sunday and went to the Dr. Monday to ask him to check again. It was gone.