Today is the feast day of St. Juan Diego, the visionary of Guadalupe who saw Our Lady appear to him in this day in Mexico, 1531. I bring him up because I am a huge devotee of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and by connection, St. Juan Diego. I also discovered today that he miraculously interceded for a Mexican drug addict in completely curing him of his wounds from an apparent suicide attempt…. AND that this miraculous cure occurred at the very moment Pope St. John Paul II was beatifying Bl. Juan Diego on May 6, 1990!

St. Juan Diego, painting by Miguel Cabrera (1695-1768). (Public domain)

From Aleteia: How a drug addict’s life was miraculously saved by St. Juan Diego:

Juan José Barragán Silva…“under the drug´s influence … stabbed himself with a knife in his mother´s presence, and went to a balcony to throw himself over. His mother tried to hold him by the legs, but he managed to free himself and plunged head first to the ground.”

The scene was horrible and he was immediately rushed to the hospital in Mexico City. What happened next surprised everyone involved.

Three days later Barragán was completely cured and the doctors all agreed that it was “scientifically inexplicable.” He should have died from the fall, or at the very least become handicapped for the rest of his life.

Barragán’s mother revealed soon after the words she prayed when her son was falling off the balcony. She said while invoking the intercession of Juan Diego, “Give me a proof … save this son of mine! And you, my Mother, listen to Juan Diego.”

ZENIT – English has the original story here: Drug Addict Proves Mexican Indian Juan Diego´s Sanctity

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