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Article: Modern Miracle ; When saints intervene nowadays, it tends to be in healthcare.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 12, 2009
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On a quiet Friday at the start of this month, Pope Benedict XVI
made it official: the healing of a Marshfield man's chronic back
pain was a miracle, attributable to the intervention of John Henry
Newman, an English cardinal who has been dead since 1890.
The Marshfield man is Jack Sullivan, a magistrate at Plymouth
District Court and a deacon at a Pembroke parish, who had suffered
crippling back pain that was relieved, twice, after he prayed for
Newman's help. After an exhaustive review of Sullivan's medical
history, the Vatican determined that his recovery could not be
explained by medicine and appears to be permanent.
The miracle is the first to be attributed to Newman, an
influential ...