Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers
Reported Cures

A Medical Miracle!
Case to be documented in the American Medical Journal

April 17, 1986
Dearest Veronica and Workers,
     This is a testimonial of a great miracle from Our Lady of the Roses.
     My brother Artie recently went through a horrible ordeal with his marriage, and he became severely depressed. He tried to commit suicide (a definite attack from Satan) by drinking poison (a pint of methyl alcohol.) My mother found him and got him to the hospital. I spent the night at home saying a vigil of rosaries for him. I prayed with friends (Shrine pilgrims) and family continuously. [He was blessed and/or his body touched almost daily by a Bayside Rose and/or Rose Petal, and the blessed Rose was left at his bedside, her sister Rosemary informs us.] My sister called for the priest and he was given the Last Rites.
The doctors didn’t give us much hope, and they said if by any chance he were to survive, he would at least definitely be blind. After many prayers and novenas, my brother was totally cured physically. There was absolutely no trace of physical damage whatsoever. However, his mental and spiritual state was very, very poor at this point. He would not keep any of the sacramentals on him. It was just an indication to us that more prayers were needed. He refused to eat, as he said it was painful; he was being fed through a tube in his nose. He had no will to live, and he was down to 116 pounds from his normal 140 pounds.
     One day he seemed to have a great improvement overnight. He then accepted the sacramentals. He is doing fabulously right now. We have to add that on the eve of St. Joseph (his patron saint), he was told by the nurse that his case was a miracle. He had taken in six times the amount of poison in his blood than the fatal amount! He is the only person nationwide to have ever survived with that amount of poison in his body. And, incredibly, without a trace of physical damage! Also, the doctor’s name who was operating the dialysis machine was Dr. Rosette.
His case will be documented in the American Medical Journal as a medical miracle--but it is a miracle through Our Lady of the Roses.

Lucille Strafer
Smithtown, New York

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