New Jersey nun credited with curing boy beatified

Fox News / The Associated Press ^ | October 4, 2014

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NEWARK, N.J. – A New Jersey nun credited with curing a boy's eye disease moved a step closer to sainthood Saturday in what church officials said was the first beatification Mass held in the United States.

A beatification Mass for Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, who died in 1927, was led by Cardinal Angelo Amato at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. Beatification is the third in a four-step process toward sainthood....

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Interesting...

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From article: “Demjanovich is credited with curing a boy's macular degeneration in the 1960s, the Archdiocese of Newark says. The boy, Michael Mencer, was given a lock of the nun's hair and prayed to her. The effects of the eye disease soon began to fade, Roman Catholic Church officials say.

Macular degeneration is progressive blindness. https://www.macular.org/what-macular-degeneration

Was the boy diagnosed with the progressive degenerative disease? A miracle to be cured, yes.

[Carthego delenda est]

“Union with God, then, is the spiritual height God calls everyone to achieve – any one, not only religious but any one, who chooses, who wills to seek this pearl of great price, who specializes in the traffic of eternal good, who says ‘yes’ constantly to God…The imitation of Christ in the lives of saints is always possible and compatible with every state of life. The saints did but one thing – the will of God. But they did it with all their might. We have only to do the same thing; and according to the degree of intensity with which we labor shall our sanctification progress.”

~Sister Miriam Teresa
From ‘Greater Perfection’, pp. 264-266

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I’ve read “Greater Perfection”. Truly, Sister Miriam Teresa is the American Little Flower.