A Miracle Healing In Rieti

Rieti, Italy

Once, when Francis was passing through the diocese of Rieti, he came to a certain village where a woman, bathed in tears, brought an eight year old son in her arms and placed him before Francis. Already for four years the boy had lived enormously swollen, so that he could not see his legs. The saint picked him up kindly and place his most holy hands upon the boy's abdomen. At his touch, the swelling went down. he was immediately made whole again, and he gave abundant thanks to God and to his saint along with his mother who was happy again.

Saint Francis of Assisi
Celano, Miracles
CHAPTER XVII

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