Although science forecasts for the near future, great breakthroughs toward resolving lymphatic diseases, to this day no definitive treatment is known. Surprising is, therefore, the following facts that once drew worldwide attention.
The event occurred on the 30th April 2000, when by the mediation of Pope John Paul II, the Vatican canonized Blessed Faustina, recognizing the intercession and supernatural cure of a person with Lymphedema. The case of the North American lady Maureen Digan, born with Primary lymphedema (Milroy Disease), was accepted after the recognition of 5 independent medical specialists, and several years of intense ecclesiastical research, as something inexplicable to science, and miraculous for the church.
The Vatican institutes stringent guidelines for what constitutes a miracle. A cure must be sudden, complete, lasting, and—most importantly—inexplicable by contemporary science. The Church privileges medical testimony, who scrutinizes the evidence submitted concerning facts and dates. Very few alleged miracles make it past the “Consulta Medica,” as the body is called. In miracle tribunals, a cure is assumed natural until proven otherwise, a position arrived at through a lengthy process of elimination, which is centered on a forensic, even skeptical, approach to the assertion, argument, and interpretation. When the tribunal thinks its work is complete, its members seal all documents in a ceremony and send them to Rome.
As to the ultimate cause of Mrs. Maureen Digan,s spontaneous regression of lymphedema, the judgment was unanimous: her cure was quick, complete, lasting, and inexplicable to science. Her case was well evidenced, well-proven, well documented, and well biopsied that she suffered an incurable disease.
In the following video we can see Maureen Digan telling her story and Doctor Kenneth Gershengorn speaking about the clinical case:
For more information:
FULL 1987 DOCUMENTARY FILM NARRATED BY OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESS HELEN HAYS - THE LIFE OF ST. FAUSTINA KOWALSKA
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CAMPAIGN
For global awareness, it is being asked that the
WHO - WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION,
name:
"LYMPHEDEMA - AWARENESS & CURES"
as the World Health Day campaign
KATHY BATES
LYMPHEDEMA AMBASSADOR
LYMPHOEDÈME / COMMÉMORATION D'UN ÉVÉNEMENT EXTRAORDINAIRE / SCIENCES N'A PAS D'EXPLICATION SCIENTIFIQUE, ET LE VATICAN DÉCLARE UN MIRACLE. LYMPHÖDEM / ERINNERUNG AN EIN AUßERGEWÖHNLICHES EREIGNIS / WISSENSCHAFT HAT KEINE WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ERKLÄRUNG, UND DER VATIKAN ERKLÄRT ES EIN WUNDER. LINFEDEMA / COMMEMORAZIONE DI UNO STRAORDINARIO EVENTO / SCIENZA NON HA ALCUNA SPIEGAZIONE SCIENTIFICA, E IL VATICANO DICHIARA UN MIRACOLO. LINFEDEMA / COMEMORAÇÃO DE UM ACONTECIMENTO EXTRAORDINÁRIO / A CIÊNCIA NÃO TEM EXPLICAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA, E DO VATICANO DECLARA QUE UM MILAGRE. LYMFÖDEM / MINNE AV EN EXTRAORDINÄR HAPPENING / VETENSKAP HAR INGEN VETENSKAPLIG FÖRKLARING, OCH VATIKANEN FÖRKLARAR DET ETT MIRAKEL.
