{"id":1230,"date":"2015-12-10T15:39:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T20:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2015-12-10T15:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T20:39:20","slug":"st-juan-diegos-amazing-miracle-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"St. Juan Diego\u2019s amazing miracle story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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St. Juan Diego\u2019s amazing miracle story<\/h1>\n
Posted on<\/span> 9 December 2015<\/span><\/a> by<\/span> Fr. John Zuhlsdorf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Remember\u2026<\/p>\n

If we do not believe in miracles, we do not ask for them. If we do not ask for them, they will not be granted.<\/p>\n

We are not alone: the Church Militant and the Church Triumphant are closely knit, interwoven in charity. We on earth must intercede for each other and believe and ask for the intercession of the saints.<\/p>\n

Today is the Feast of St.\u00a0Juan Diego<\/strong>, of Our Lady of Guadalupe fame. \u00a0Mexican, native-American St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (+1548), was\u00a0granted an apparition by Our Lady\u00a0Virgin Mary four times on\u00a0the hill of Tepeyac. \u00a0 He had been declared Venerable in 1987. \u00a0St. John Paul II decided to beatify him without the approved miracle. \u00a0He was beatified on 6 May 1990.<\/p>\n

Under normal circumstances, for a beatification there must be a miracle which has been rigorously studied and approved by the Congregation for Causes and Saints accepted by the Holy Father. \u00a0\u00a0St. John Paul bypassed the process. \u00a0Pope Benedict and Pope Francis have done the same occasionally\u2026 well\u2026 Francis pretty often, as it turns out.<\/p>\n

There was a miracle for Juan Diego\u2019s\u00a0canonization, however.\u00a0 It is quite a story<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Juan Jose Barragan Silva, of Mexico City, was a drug addict from his adolescence.\u00a0 He and his mother had been abandoned by his father.<\/p>\n

On 3 May 1990 \u2013 note the date \u2013 Juan Jose, after getting drunk and high on marijuana with a friend, went home and started to cut himself on the head with a knife.\u00a0 His mother, Esperanza, tried to get the knife away but failed.\u00a0 She implored him to stop abusing himself and give up the alcohol and marijuana. \u00a0 He shouted that he didn\u2019t want to live any more so loudly that the neighbors came to see what was going on, but the door was locked.<\/p>\n

Juan Jose threw himself off the balcony of their second floor apartment (in the USA this would be counted as the third floor).<\/p>\n

In that moment, Esperanza had a \u201cflash\u201d.\u00a0 Knowing that Pope John Paul was to be in Mexico for the beatification of Juan Diego, she called on Juan Diego to intercede for her son.<\/p>\n

Juan Jose fell about 10 meters and landed close to a friend of his, Jesus Alfredo Velasquez Ramirez, who saw him land on his head<\/em> on the concrete pavement.\u00a0 Juan Jose was bleeding copiously from the mouth, nose and ears.\u00a0 They covered him, thinking he was dead.\u00a0 He suddenly sat up, rose and went to the stairs leading to his apartment.\u00a0 On meeting his mother coming down the stairs he asked his mother\u2019s forgiveness.\u00a0 They embraced and remained that way for another ten minutes or so before the ambulance came.<\/p>\n

During the ambulance ride Juan Jose said he had lost his vision.\u00a0 He was able to say a Our Father.\u00a0 He was registered at Sanatorio Durango at 1830.<\/p>\n

The medical prognosis was very pessimistic.<\/p>\n

The doctor, Juan Homero Hernandez Illescas, later explained that it was already incomprehensible that he was still alive.<\/p>\n

They did tests immediately and found that Juan Jose had a fracture of the epistropheus, a large hemotoma in the right temporal-parietal region extending to the lateral part of the neck and lacerations of the muscles about the parapharyngeal space,\u00a0 fractures from the right orbital to the clivus, intracranial hemorrhages and air in the cranial cavity and in the cerebral ventricals.<\/p>\n

Fr. Manuel Ponce gave him the last rites under the impression that Juan Jose would soon be dead.<\/p>\n

He continued to live.<\/p>\n

Fore the first few days Juan Jose was sedated. On the fifth, doctors found that his pupils were symmetrical and reactive and that he could move his arms and legs.\u00a0 On the sixth day he was released from the ICU to a regular ward.\u00a0 On the seventh day his feeding tube was removed.\u00a0 He was released on the tenth day after the fall.\u00a0\u00a0 Subsequent tests by neurologists and other specialists showed a total recovery<\/strong>.\u00a0 Juan Jose subsequently gave up his drug habit and started school.<\/p>\n

It was determined that his change of condition came on 6 May at the very time John Paul II beatified\u00a0Juan Diego<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For a miracle of curing to be authenticated as such, the cure has to be sudden, complete and lasting. \u00a0It has to be inexplicable by science. It has to be demonstrated that the venerable or blessed was invoked in a particular way. \u00a0There are usually spiritual effects, such as conversion of life of the person cured and also witnesses.<\/p>\n

The decree concerning this miracle was promulgated on 20 December 2001.\u00a0 Holy Father Pope John Paul II canonized St. Juan Diego on 31 July 2002.<\/p>\n

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