\u201cAt F\u00e1tima there are people from all over the world and they pray to Mary as they crawl to the shrine about a block and a half,\u201d Inskeep said. \u201cThey are crawling and crying. It\u2019s so emotional.\u201d
On the morning that Inskeep, her daughter and cousin headed to Mass at the basilica in F\u00e1tima, Inskeep was handed a headphone piece that was for her left ear. She was deaf in that ear because of chronic ringing that had become so severe she lost her hearing. Along with the ringing she also had Meniere\u2019s disease, which includes vertigo as a symptom.
But when Inskeep placed the headphone piece to the deaf ear, she discovered she miraculously could hear naturally. Immediately she began crying.
\u201cI can hear,\u201d she told her daughter.
\u201cThat\u2019s Grandma,\u201d said Godar, immediately thinking of Inskeep\u2019s mother, who died in 2012. She had been devoted to the Virgin Mary, because she had been born on Dec. 8 \u2013 the feast of the Immaculate Conception \u2013 and had prayed to Mary under the title of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Tears flowed as Inskeep savored the miracle. Every so often, Godar asked her mother if she could still hear.
Something extraordinary happened to her at F\u00e1tima.
Although a member of Hutchinson\u2019s Holy Cross Catholic Church, Inskeep was traveling with Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas. While there were 90 people in their group on two buses, the archbishop heard of Inskeep\u2019s miracle and asked her about it.
\u201cI asked him, \u2018Why me?\u2019 \u201c Inskeep said. \u201cAnd he said, \u2018Why not you?\u2019 \u201c
The tour included a trip to Lourdes, France \u2013 the site of another international Marian shrine \u2013 and the Vatican in Rome, where they saw Pope Francis in the crowded St. Peter\u2019s Square. Through it all, Inskeep could hear everything from subtle conversations to the soft drizzle of the rain.
In gratitude she plans to pray the rosary every day. She returned home with a special locket from F\u00e1tima and five rosaries as gifts.
Back in Hutchinson she went to her family physician, who told her that if she could hear there was no reason to see an audiologist.
Before F\u00e1tima, her husband, David Inskeep, would sit at her left side and be her \u201cear\u201d when they were out in public. Now she can hear plainly in that ear.
He\u2019s happy his wife has her hearing back, and with a smile he calls her \u201cour lady of Hutchinson.\u201d<\/p>\n
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