Posted on 03/13/2017 12:40:21 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
Although she had been sickly ever since the typhoid fever, she seemed to be enjoying her teenage years. She was happy-go-lucky, loved dancing and laughed heartily at Grandma’s funny jokes. But in 1918 she fell ill again and was bedridden. Doctors thought it might be a brain tumor or encephalitis. They really did not understand what her illness was until one of them diagnosed her as having Hysteria. She had been “labeled.”
By 1928, Marthe’s lower body was paralyzed and by 1929 so were her arms. It was not a result of hysteria. Finally, without proof, her condition was called Encephalitis Lethargica, a rare form of encephalitis. This was never confirmed.
Marthe was living at home in a dark bedroom due to her hypersensitivity to light. By the age of 28, she was completely paralyzed and bedridden. Early on she still could use her thumb and forefinger and was able to finger her rosary beads. Eventually she lost the ability to do even that. All she could do was move her head. She could no longer eat or even take a sip of water.
Doctors tried to force water down but it would come out her nostrils. There was, however, one thing she could and would consume. That was the Holy Eucharist.
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All I can say is wow, remarkable story.
The comments are a hoot.
Meanwhile, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ;-)
And now nasal irrigation is a huge industry.
She died when the priest went on a 2 week vacation.
Check out “Eucharistic Miracles” by Joan Carroll Cruz, TAN Books 1986.
Good grief. Where does the Bible command Christians to only eat the bread and wine of the Eucharist? The Apostle Paul told young Timothy to “take a little wine for your stomach’s sake, and your frequent illnesses” (1 Tim 5:23). That’s just one example. The Apostles themselves didn’t even try to subsist on the Eucharist. Why do these folk-Catholic self-martyrs try to do so?
Inedia: the ability to live without food
The word ‘inedia’ simply means ‘fasting’ in Latin, and was first used to describe a fast-based lifestyle within Catholic tradition, which holds that certain saints were able to survive for extended periods of time without food
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