Vatican Investigates 'Miracle' Recovery of Man Shot in Head

ABC News ^ | April 2, 2009 | DAN HARRIS, JEN PEREIRA and LEE FERRAN

[NYer]

When Jory Aebly was shot in the head, execution-style during a mugging five weeks ago in Cleveland, Ohio, that should have been the end of it. Doctors at the Metro Health Medical Center told his family it was a "non-survivable" injury, according to the hospital's Web site.

But Tuesday, a very-much-alive Aebly was wheeled to a press conference before he went home in what some believe is a true "miracle," possibly good enough to help earn deceased Pope John Paul II sainthood.

"It's one in a million," Dr. Robert Geertman, a neurosurgeon involved in Aebly's treatment, said in a press conference just days after the shooting. "My jaw was on the floor after a day or two of seeing he is hanging on. ... I'd say it's pretty miraculous."

The connection between the 26-year-old's incredible recovery and the late pope came in the form of hospital chaplain, Father Art Snedeker, and a single blessed rosary Snedeker gave Aebly soon after the shooting.

"[Pope John Paul II] promised me that he would always pray for the patients at Metro and he blessed a dozen rosaries with special patients here," Snedeker said in the press conference. "The first night that Jory arrived and I performed the sacrament of the sick, I also asked Pope John Paul to pray for Jory and to protect him."

Snedeker gave Aebly the last of the rosaries that were blessed by the pope.

From then on, Aebly repeatedly amazed doctors with consistent improvement culminating in his release Tuesday, just two days before the fourth anniversary of John Paul's death.

"I stand before you today and can say, to my mind, Jory is a miracle," Snedeker said at the press conference.

[NYer]

Power of prayer ping!

[Solson]

Very cool!

[samiam1972]

WOW! God is good!

[Alex Murphy]

Ping to watch the dispensationalists bring up Rev 13:3,12

[ConservativeMind]

He will now become the patron saint of gun victims in Cleveland?

[Salvation]

Wow! Tears in my eys and lump in my throat bump.

**The connection between the 26-year-old’s incredible recovery and the late pope came in the form of hospital chaplain, Father Art Snedeker, and a single blessed rosary Snedeker gave Aebly soon after the shooting.

“[Pope John Paul II] promised me that he would always pray for the patients at Metro and he blessed a dozen rosaries with special patients here,” Snedeker said in the press conference. “The first night that Jory arrived and I performed the sacrament of the sick, I also asked Pope John Paul to pray for Jory and to protect him.”

Snedeker gave Aebly the last of the rosaries that were blessed by the pope.**

[agere_contra]

He will now become the patron saint of gun victims in Cleveland?

LOL. But yes, someone's got to do it.

[kevinm13]

Pray to Pope John Paul II.

[BlueDragon]

I once knew a guy who had shot himself in the head, when he was about fifteen years old. Some crudely referred to him as "bullet brain." When I met him he was in his late thirties/early forties. For a time, he captained this boat [below] when it was swordfish long-lining in the Pacific.

The boat is a bit larger than the picture may suggest. It was 85ft. or so. I don't know where it is now. Maybe Hawaii. Maybe Seattle. Maybe scrapped, for all I know. But bullet brain is no longer with us. Died in Hawaii, I've been told.

[Sacajaweau]

We had a policeman shot in the back of the head...Rochester, NY. He went home yesterday after 61 daYS OF CARE...AND MANY MIRACLES.

MIRACLE No. 1 was that the surgeon on duty was "THEE EXPERT" on brain injuries by gunshot.

Kinda reminds you of the Miracle on the Hudson...where Sully was an EXPERT on Gliding.

What do we learn from these things?? Here's two experts (Sully and the Doc) who went above and beyond what they could have done to survive "life" in General.

Does God give us all 15 minutes if we work for it? What greater reward can there be than to save the life of another "just once in a lifetime".

P.S. Soldiers do it everyday!! Be grateful!!

[Thorin]

Thanks for posting.

[Kenton]

For all you non-Clevelanders who don't know what this is all about, this was a hate crime committed by 4 black thugs. This act has been endorsed by the "National Black Foot Soldier Network" as a "legitimate reparations protest".

Here's the link, read it for yourself. And if you see anybody who looks even remotely like these guys, feel free to shoot on sight. Scum like this are the reason we have CCW in Ohio.