I Love this Miracle!

Saint Maria Faustina was a polish nun for the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. While she served she received communications from Jesus asking her to pass on His message of his bountiful Mercy. He commissioned her to have a painting made of Him and the words written, "Jesus, I trust in You."

Reading her diary is such a wonderful thing. Reading the Lord's messages to her is very moving. He wants the world to know of His Divine Mercy and that sinners will receive favor from Him if they ask for it.  It's prophetic and inspiring. What struck me personally was how he sometimes refers to her as Daughter. Very early on in my journey to the Catholic Church, I heard a voice in my head when I was going through a difficult time. I was in the chapel and heard the voice say "Dear daughter, I suffer along with you"
Being one to second guess these experiences and quick to write it off as just my own thought, I was intrigued to see Him talk to her in the same way.

Any skeptic may think the same thing and say she was just talking to herself and seeing things. But here's a miracle which was one of the three to lead to her being named a Saint.

From the official site of The Divine Mercy

Miracle received by Maureen Digan

Before the age of 15, Maureen Digan enjoyed a normal healthy life. Then she was struck down with a very serious, slowly progressive but terminal disease called lymphedema. This is a disease that does not respond to medication and does not go into remission. Within the next ten years Maureen had fifty operations and had lengthy confinements in the hospital of up to a year at a time.

Friends and relations suggested she should pray and put her trust in God. But Maureen could not understand why God had allowed her to get this disease in the first place, and had lost her faith completely. Eventually her deteriorating condition would require the amputation of one leg.

One evening while Maureen was in the hospital her husband Bob watched a film on Divine Mercy and there he became convinced of the healing powers of intercession by Sr. Faustina. Bob persuaded Maureen and the doctors that she should go to the tomb of Sr. Faustina in Poland. Together with her husband, son, and Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, MIC (a priest of the Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception), they traveled to St. Faustina's tomb at the Shrine of The Divine Mercy outside Krakow, Poland. They arrived in Poland on March 23, 1981 and Maureen went to confession for the first time since she was a young girl.

At the tomb Maureen remembers saying "Okay, Faustina I came a long way, now do something." Innerly she heard Sr. Faustina say: "If you ask for my help, I will give it to you." Suddenly she thought she was losing her mind. All the pain seemed to drain out of her body and her swollen leg, which was due to be amputated shortly, went back to its normal size. When she returned to the USA she was examined by five independent doctors who came to the conclusion that she was completely healed. They had no medical explanation for the sudden healing of this incurable disease.

The accumulated evidence of this miracle was examined in consultation by five doctors appointed by the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Having passed this test it was examined by a team of theologians, and finally by a team of cardinals and bishops. The cure was accepted by all as a miracle caused by Sr. Faustina's intercession to the Divine Mercy. Sr. Faustina was beatified on April 18, 1993.

I just love this story because so many of us may feel like Maureen. We may lose faith. She didn't have to have faith that she would be healed and she was still healed anyway.