A diminished lord and master of the universe continues to work miracles.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey nun credited with curing a boy's eye disease will be a step closer to sainthood with her beatification.
A beatification Mass for Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, who died in 1927 at age 26, will be led Saturday by Cardinal Angelo Amato at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. It is the third in a four-step process toward sainthood.
Demjanovich is credited with curing a boy's macular degeneration in the 1960s, the Archdiocese of Newark says. The boy, Michael Mencer, was given a lock of the nun's hair and prayed to her. The effects of the eye disease soon began to fade, Roman Catholic Church officials say.
"Within a period of six weeks, it was totally reversed," said Sister Mary Canavan of the Sisters of Charity, the order to which Demjanovich belonged.
The beatification comes less than a year after Pope Francis certified Mencer's improved eyesight as a miracle, though church officials started the process in 1945 when the bishop of Paterson began studying Demjanovich's life and virtues, according to the Sisters of Charity.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nun-credited-curing-boy-beatified-25943672
Sure, back in the day old Yahweh could stop the sun in its track across the sky, incinerate entire cities, or wipe out all life on earth. Yes those days of miracles are long gone, but even a much diminished, nearly vanishingly small and irrelevant deity can still manage a teeny-weeny intervention.
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