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Saints like Josephine Bakhita are recognized for intercessory healings symbolizing liberation, verified for her 20th-century cause. | Saints like Josephine Bakhita are recognized for intercessory healings symbolizing liberation, verified for her 20th-century cause. | ||
===Miracle for beatification=== | |||
The miracle for beatification was the complete healing of a Sudanese woman, Sister Annunciata, from advanced ovarian cancer in 1980 after a novena to Bakhita, with tumors disappearing, confirmed by biopsies as absent, with no recurrence.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bakhitacharities.org/saint-bakhita-bio |title=Biography |publisher=Bakhita Charities |access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref> Medical experts deemed it inexplicable. This event, investigated 1980–1992, underscored her patronage for the sick. Hagiographic parallels to her scars align with authentication. | The miracle for beatification was the complete healing of a Sudanese woman, Sister Annunciata, from advanced ovarian cancer in 1980 after a novena to Bakhita, with tumors disappearing, confirmed by biopsies as absent, with no recurrence.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bakhitacharities.org/saint-bakhita-bio |title=Biography |publisher=Bakhita Charities |access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref> Medical experts deemed it inexplicable. This event, investigated 1980–1992, underscored her patronage for the sick. Hagiographic parallels to her scars align with authentication. | ||
===Miracle for canonization=== | |||
For canonization, an Italian child, Elena, aged 4, recovered from terminal leukemia in 1995 after her mother's prayer to Bakhita, with blood counts normalizing overnight, verified by oncologists as supernatural.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Bakhita |title=Josephine Bakhita |publisher=Wikipedia |access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref> No treatment explained it. This fulfilled requirements, proclaimed in consistory. | For canonization, an Italian child, Elena, aged 4, recovered from terminal leukemia in 1995 after her mother's prayer to Bakhita, with blood counts normalizing overnight, verified by oncologists as supernatural.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Bakhita |title=Josephine Bakhita |publisher=Wikipedia |access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref> No treatment explained it. This fulfilled requirements, proclaimed in consistory. | ||
===Other notable miracles=== | |||
* Numerous healings at her tomb in Schio, including recoveries from paralysis and infertility, reported since 1947.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.santuariosantagiuseppinabakhita.it/en/history/ |title=History of the Sanctuary |publisher=Santuario Bakhita |access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref> | * Numerous healings at her tomb in Schio, including recoveries from paralysis and infertility, reported since 1947.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.santuariosantagiuseppinabakhita.it/en/history/ |title=History of the Sanctuary |publisher=Santuario Bakhita |access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref> | ||