A miracle was presented that contributed to the canonization of Peter George Frassati

The inexplicable medical healing of Achilles' broken tendon at the time of the cleric, and present the priest, Fr Juan Gutierrez, was recognized by the Holy See as a miracle essential for the canonization of Peter Jerzy Frassati (Pier Giorgio Frassati), was informed at a press conference in Los Angeles.

Presently 38 years old, Fr Juan Gutierrez suffered injury while playing basketball in 2017. He passed the MRI and shortly found out he had a severed Achilles tendon. afraid by the long and painful recovery and expenses, Gutierrez went to the seminary chapel the next day “with a dense heart”. Praying, he felt the request to send the novena to Frassati. A fewer days after it began, he went to the chapel to pray erstwhile no 1 was there. He then remembered that he felt an different feeling around the injured foot.

“I prayed and started feeling warm in the area of my injury. And I honestly thought that something might have caught fire under the benches," Fr Gutierrez recalled at a press conference in the parish of St. John the Baptist in Los Angeles region on Monday, where he presently serves as a vicar. He checked for fire, but he didn't see anything, even though he inactive felt warm in his wound. He remembered from his experiences that warmth could be associated with God’s healing. He started staring at the Tabernacle and crying. He was not only touched spiritually, but besides physically healed. In an incredible way, he was able to walk again usually and no longer needed orthosis. erstwhile Fr Gutierrez visited the orthopedic surgeon, he confirmed that he did not request surgery. The teardrop that erstwhile appeared on a magnetic resonance scan disappeared, which is different in this kind of trauma, said the surgeon. His opinion was the beginning of a Vatican investigation into a miracle that yet led to Frassati's canonization.

"The healing of Father Gutierrez was a miracle. Doctors could not explain it," said Archbishop José Gómez at the press conference. "Of course, a miracle is simply a word that is abused in our culture and is not well understood. But the Scriptures tell us that Jesus did miracles on earth. ...And we believe that Jesus continues to execute miracles from heaven” - he noted. He added that the Lord Jesus not only hears our prayers, but besides the prayers that the saints offer for us. "Now we have a fresh saint who watches over us from heaven," said Archbishop Gomez.

Fr. washing, Robert Sarno expressed his amazement “how all this had happened”, noting that there were many unusual connections that led to everything being connected. After his retirement from the Vatican Department of Canonization Affairs, he conducted classes on the causes of canonization at the St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, where he met no 1 another than Gutierrez. The seminarian erstwhile approached Sarno outside of class and told him about the healing he had experienced. "When I heard this, I immediately suspected that this case might have any background," he said. Sarno distant from fresh York.

With the approval of the Vatican and Gómez, Sarno began a canonical investigation into healing. Only the final step remains – the "final consultation" of cardinals and bishops with the Holy Father to approve or reject canonization. Sarno noted that “in specified a case it truly was a formality.”

Wanda Gawronska, Frassati's niece, shared her emotion at the conference that her uncle would be canonized next year. She recalled the challenges her parent faced erstwhile she sought his canonization in the early 1930 ’ s.

Source: KAI