(Tessa Gervasini/CNA) — Many Catholics credit prayers of intercession to Blessed Solanus Casey for curing and helping people who suffer from illnesses. Mary Bartold of DeWitt, Michigan, is now among the many who do so after her two tumors vanished with no medical intervention but after continuous prayers to Casey, whose ministry was built upon healing and compassion.
Mary’s unexpected health issues began almost a year ago in late April 2024, the Detroit Free Press reported. Mary was a sophomore at Lansing Catholic High School in Michigan when she began to experience severe abdominal pain while at school. Mary and her family could not pinpoint what the problem was.
Mary’s parents, Susan and Rick Bartold, took her for a CT scan and ultrasound of her abdomen. The images revealed two masses on each of her ovaries: one was 7.3 centimeters large and the other was 1.5 centimeters. At just 16 years old, Mary began to worry about losing the potential to have children and all the implications the tumors could have on her health.
- See also, ‘Both tumors are gone’ — Did Solanus Casey work a Michigan miracle? at The Pillar.
- Read a feature article on Father Casey by Brian Kelly on this site: Blessed Solanus Casey, O.F.M., Cap.
Below is a YouTube video produced by the Diocese of Lansing (Michigan), which has also published a Prayer for the Canonization of Blessed Solanus Casey:
In Spring 2024, 16-year-old Mary Bartold from DeWitt, Michigan, was diagnosed as having two tumors. One was three centimeters. The other was seven centimeters. Surgery to remove both was required. With Mary’s blessing, the Bartold family asked people far and wide to pray to God through the intercession of Blessed Solanus Casey (1870-1957) a Capuchin priest who served as the porter, or doorkeeper, at Saint Bonaventure Monastery in Detroit for over two decades. What happened? Watch and find out.
