And here is another miraculous cure from a saint's relics. This story appeared today at Catholic News Agency.
“I prayed to Newman daily,” he said.Beautiful! I'll show my daughter (this post) who shies away right out the door, when I start kissing the relics on the wall of our church.
His doctor told him recovery would be months, possibly years, because the dura mater in his spine was not only compressed but torn up.
It was three weeks before the fourth-year diaconate classes were to begin. “I’ve got to try to walk,” Mr. Sullivan told his nurses.
“It took me 10 minutes to get myself to the edge of the bed. … the pain was constant,” he said. “I couldn’t get up. I was in agony. … I was brought to prayer. The same simple prayer. ‘Please Cardinal Newman help me to walk so that I can return to classes and be ordained.’
“Then something unbelievable happened. You talk about the communion of saints ... that experience I had approached that concept.
“Suddenly, I felt tremendous heat ... and a tingling feeling all over my body. I also felt a tremendous sense of peace and joy. … I was totally consumed, totally engulfed in what I have believed and will always believe was God’s presence. I had no willpower of my own. I was just totally captivated.
“I realized I was standing up, standing with no pain … I could walk normally,” he said.
The nurse offered him a walker, then a cane; but he needed neither. He walked up and down the corridors of the hospital with the nurse telling him to slow down. “How could I slow down?” he asked with a chuckle.
He was discharged that day, went on to diaconate classes, and was ordained a year later, on Sept. 14, 2002, the feast of the triumph of the cross. Link.