Jun 15, 2007 / 09:49 am
A woman devoted to San Antonio de Santa Ana Galvao, or Friar Galvao, as he is known in Brazil, said she was miraculously cured of a grave illness after praying the prayers she found on a website devoted the new Brazilian saint.
The official Friar Galvao website said the woman is a 41 year-old Brazilian who resides in Tennessee wrote a letter to the St. Friar Galvao museum in Guaratingueta, telling her story.
In her letter she wrote that when she learned of her illness, she spoke with a friend who lives in Brazil, who told her to pray to the saint and to swallow the “paper pills” with which devotees of the saint ask for his intercession. However, since she had difficulty obtaining the “pills,” she visited the website where she found prayers and instructions on lighting a series of online candles in honor of the saint.
“Not having the pills, she lit the candles daily with great faith, and said the prayers. A few days later she went for more medical tests. The results were different, and she no longer had the illness,” the website reported.