Word: kalin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rome for the canonization were two persons whose cures, attributed to the heavenly intercession of Mother Seton, had been decreed miracles. One was Mrs. Ann O'Neill Hooe, 27, of Severn, Md., who recovered from childhood leukemia 23 years ago. The other was Florida's Carl Kalin, 73, a convert from Lutheranism only last year, who was cured of a rare brain disease in 1963. The third case involved a nun, since deceased, who had recovered from cancer of the pancreas...
...miracles attributed to Mother Seton's intercession were confirmed by the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites. Confirmation of two additional miracles is usually required for canonization; in Mother Seton's case, however, Pope Paul decided that one would suffice. It occurred in 1963 when Carl Kalin, a construction worker, was stricken with a complicated viral affliction of the brain...
...attended at what seemed to be his deathbed by nuns who prayed to Mother Seton for his recovery and occasionally touched his feverish body with one of her relics. A few weeks later, Kalin was completely cured...