No symptoms or after-effects after a 20-feet fall!

The Brazilian parents of the boy whose miraculous healing led to Saturday’s canonization of two of the Fatima children spoke recently of what happened.

João Batista and his wife Lucila Yurie spoke amidst tears at the Fatima Shrine during a press conference held in advance of the pope’s arrival. The two Fatima visionaries, Jacinta and Francisco, were canonized by Pope Francis on Saturday, the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima…

“On March 3, 2013, before 8:00 p.m., our son Lucas, who was playing with his little sister Eduarda, fell out of a window from a height of 20 feet. He was five years old,” related the boy’s father… “His head hit the ground and he sustained a very serious injury, which caused brain damage,” Joao said. Barely alive, Lucas “was given medical care in our city, Juranda, and given the severity of his condition, he was transferred to the hospital in Campo Mourao, Parana. When we got there, Lucas was in a deep coma. His heart stopped twice, and they performed an emergency operation.”

The couple said it was right then that “we began to pray to Jesus and Our Lady of Fatima, to whom we have a great devotion… The next day we called the Carmelite convent of Campo Mouro to ask the sisters to pray for the boy,” he said. The sisters “ran to the relics of Blessed Francisco and Jacinta, which were next to the tabernacle, and felt the impulse to pray the following prayer: ‘Shepherds, save this child, who is a child like you’…she also persuaded the other sisters to pray to the little shepherds to intercede for him.”

Lucas’ condition deteriorated over the next few days. On March 6, the doctors “told us that the chance of the boy surviving was low, and if he did survive, his recovery would be very slow,” and he would likely deal with “severe cognitive disabilities or even remain in a vegetative state.”

On March 9, Lucas woke up and began to speak, even asking for his little sister. Lucas was moved from the ICU on March 11 and was discharged from the hospital a few days later. Ever since, Lucas “has been completely well and has no symptoms or after effects,” the child’s father said. 

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