Dear Editor:

I had been discharged two days before the Millbrook Pilgrimage was to leave. I asked my doctor please I know St. Anne will help me I need to go as a pilgrim, so off I went. When I was released from the hospital I could no longer write, my body was full of liver bruises and my hands had uncontrollable twitching caused by my condition. The first day I had uncontrollable vomiting I prayed that I could go on and not have to return home. Being extremely weak I had to use a wheelchair but I didn’t care as long as I could see our grandmother St. Anne.

Once at the shrine I felt her love for me and brought all my petition with me. During the mass on Saturday night I felt her presence and she was beckoning me to look at her I could not stop. Then when the relic was placed on me I felt a tremendous feeling of peace and tears of joys I couldn’t stop crying, then the priest who placed the relic on me came back and said the relic was so warm I told him St. Anne is going to help me. When I prayed I prayed for healing or Joyful resignation to my illness.

The next day my hands stopped jerking, the bruises faded and I could write. I walked over to the mass card office and wrote out twenty – five mass cards I actually walked with no assistance.

The faith of my parents and grandparents have always been an important part of my life’s journey and saw me through many turmoils.

I again am asking you for prayer when ever my conditi ...

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