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Plump Mrs. Anthony Geraci, goodwife of The Bronx, N. Y., limped to St. Lucy's Roman Catholic Church one evening last week, leaning on a cane. Her dragging left foot was supported in a steel brace. After services in the church, Mrs. Geraci and some 500 other worshippers followed Father Pasquale T. Lombardo to St. Lucy's new, $10,000 outdoor shrine, a replica of the famed grotto at Lourdes. Mrs. Geraci went to the shrine's pool, fed by city water trickling over big rocks below a statue of the Virgin...
Paying small heed to those about her, the goodwife sipped the water, prayed quietly. Suddenly she felt "the pricking of needles" all over her. Slipping off her shoe and brace, Mrs. Geraci stepped into the pool. She clambered out, jumped up & down, flexed her muscles, exhibited a healthy left foot. Everyone shouted...
...Geraci almost ran the ten blocks back home, to show her foot to her husband, a tailor who had lost his faith 31 years ago when an earthquake in Italy wiped out his family. "I believe! I believe!" cried Anthony Geraci, and rushed back to St. Lucy's with his wife. Soon there was such a press round the Geracis at the shrine that police had to be called. As the crowds continued to grow, Father Lombardo, who had heard of small "favors" (minor cures) at the shrine, said of Mrs. Geraci's healing: "It is a miracle...