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Signs and Wonders

By Virtue of the Sacramentals
(Holy Water)

Miraculous Recovery of My Father’s Health
This testimony was written by myself after the rather miraculous cure
and recovery of my father’s health.
A quick and brief summary of events: on 24 November 1997 my father
was admitted to hospital with a brain haemorrhage. After spending
three weeks in hospital and various examinations a malignant growth
round the left lung was diagnosed. The removal of the lung in question
would have disastrous effects. For this reason the doctors suggested
that he undergo radiotherapy. Consequently my father started with it at
the end of January 1998. He had to receive this treatment 32 times.
Now it is early in March 1998. Father suffered weight loss of more than
20 kg and was at the point of death. He did feel very bad and unwell.
At the beginning of April he had to go to hospital in Bree for a supple-
mentary examination. He had a renewed blood test and they came to
the conclusion that he had cancer, stage 5 (the highest level).
Consequently I was called before a medical council and they told me
frankly that my father was past recovery; he would not live to see Christ-
mas 1998, his life would last at most for some six months. I ought to be
ready for anything, they told me. Spring was over and father’s condi-
tion grew steadily worse.

Until a good friend, J. D., dropped in and I told him the whole story. He
listened attentively and a week later he paid me a visit again with a
bottle of blessed water (holy water of the Sword-Bishop). He told me: „If
your father drinks up this bottle, and I will implore the help from Above
for that, then he will be healed.“ We were slightly sceptical, but my fa-
ther had nothing more to lose.

So every day he simply took a draught of it emptying the bottle to the
last drop. After a short while (two to three months) a slight improvement
occurred. The more Christmas was approaching, the better my father
was feeling, and visibly!
Now it is almost three years ago and he is in perfect health again and is
able to live life to the full again!

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