Of all of Padre Pio's healings, one of the most remarkable may have been a blind girl from the Palermo area named Gemma DiGiorgio. (See pictures above, the day of her First Communion.) “I had no pupils in my eyes,” said Gemma in 1971, several years after Padre Pio's death. “I had no sight at all. When I was three months old, my mother took me to a very famous eye doctor in Palermo. He told her that, without pupils, I would never be able to see.” In 1946, when the girl was seven, a nun took it upon herself to write Padre Pio on her behalf, and received a note saying that the girl should be brought to Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotundo. That's exactly what Gemma's grandmother did: brought the girl to see the famous monk, who heard the child's First Confession and gave her her First Communion — then made the Sign of the Cross on her eyes. After the blessing, Gemma was able to see.
>
I met Robert:) "His body is reconstructing its anatomy. Is this possible?" It was 1974 and Robert Gutherman was 14 years old. He was sitting in his doctor's office watching as the specialist wrote those words in his chart. The teen-ager didn't quite understand what was happening, but his mother, Beatrice, knew a miracle when she saw one. And the restoration of the three bones in Gutherman's right ear that are necessary for hearing - along with the return of his hearing - are what brought Mother Katharine Drexel one step closer to sainthood. Medical experts called Gutherman's cure medically unexplainable and, in 1988, Pope John Paul II accepted the cure as the first miracle attributed to the intervention of Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament who died in 1955. http://www.phillyburbs.com/drexel/0827miracles.shtml