JPII’s American ‘Miracle’

Posted by Tom McFeely

Friday, April 03, 2009 7:36 AM

Screenshot of 'Good Morning America' feature about John Paul II's reported intercession to save the life of shooting victim Jory Aebly.

Yesterday, on the fourth anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II, ABC reported about a young Cleveland man who credits astonishing recovery from a bullet wound in the head is to the late Pope’s intercession.

Go here to read an article posted about the recovery of Jory Aebly, who was shot in the head during a mugging five weeks ago, and to view the video aired yesterday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” show.

Aebly was so badly injured that doctors held out no hope that he would survive when he arrived at Cleveland’s Metro Health Medical Center; in fact, doctors formally told his family he had suffered a “non-survivable” injury.

But hospital chaplain Father Art Snedeker wasn’t so sure about that. He gave the gravely injured young man the last one of the 12 rosaries that John Paul gave to Father Snedeker.

“[Pope John Paul II] promised me that he would always pray for the patients at Metro and he blessed a dozen rosaries with special patients here,” Snedeker said at a press conference the hospital held this week. “The first night that Jory arrived and I performed the sacrament of the sick, I also asked Pope John Paul to pray for Jory and to protect him.”

Subsequently, according to ABC’s account, “Aebly repeatedly amazed doctors with consistent improvement culminating in his release Tuesday, just two days before the fourth anniversary of John Paul’s death.”

Said Father Snedeker at the press conference, “I stand before you today and can say, to my mind, Jory is a miracle.”

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