c – Healing of a blind girl
It’s once again Ippolito reporting this; In the vespers of the same day, the eighth day after the translation of 1805, the size of the crowd that attended was incredible, the majority not being able to enter the church, was forced to stay outside. During the preaching of Fr. Antonio Vetrani, Missionary of the Congregation of St. Peter in Cesarano in the Mugnano area, a woman from Avella was allowed into the church with her little girl of about two years, blind because of smallpox and considered incurable by the main doctors of Naples.
As soon as that mother was close to the sacred urn, she applied the oil from the lamp on her girl’s eyes who, in that instant, recovered her eyesight (fig. 9).
Both mother and daughter started to shout, the daughter with happiness, the mother with faith; Instantly, inside and outside the Church the news of the miracle began to spread, and the crowd where in turmoil with curiosity! There was a man present who had the reputation of a non believer. Struck by the marvel he had witnessed, he offered spontaneously to help financially with the erection of the chapel that for some time had been planned to be built for the Saint’s cult. Here, we have two miracles, the opening of the eyes of an innocent girl, and the opening of the eyes of the soul in a sinner”.
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