[LadyDoc]

Paret said the biggest disappointment came about six years ago when a woman who had lived on a New Mexico reservation came out of a coma after 16 years. The bishop of the Santa Fe diocese had prayed to Kateri. But the woman, who was in a nursing home at the time, was given medication for the flu, which doctors said brought her out of her coma. A doctor friend of Paret reviewed the case and agreed.

They gave her Symmetrel, a drug that fights parkinson's disease but is actually used to prevent flu. I once treated our nursing home with it during a flu epidemic when the vaccine didn't work. No one came out of a coma, but theoretically they could.

Every Catholic Indian in New Mexico knows this story. They held a prayer service for this lady, who had been in a coma for ten years. Then she woke up. Coincidence?

We have a Kateri shrine at one of our local Catholic churches. Everyone knows she was a saint, it's just hard to "prove" it under the present day rules.

[siunevada]

Everyone knows she was a saint, it's just hard to "prove" it under the present day rules.

I agree that "everyone knows". The recognition of who she is will come about in its own time. Maybe just when we need her the most.

[Ciexyz]

I came to this thread thru the Catholic Daily Caucus. Such a shame that the miracle in New Mexico wasn't credited as such. No matter what the offical rules says, it was a miracle that the woman came out of her coma after 16 years...thru prayers of her faith community.