“What saint do you pray to for cancer healing?”
Unable to answer my young friend, I assured her that I would find out whom that saint was. The next day I found a book of retreats in a local bookstore, which had in it the biography of St. Peregrine and a novena to him as the Patron Saint of cancer victims. After passing on the information to my friend, I felt urged to begin asking for the intercession of this saint for people I knew who were suffering from this disease, including a dear friend of mine with terminal cancer.
I prayed intensely for all of these people, to the saint who had been miraculously cured of cancer himself in the 14th century, after having a vision in which Jesus touched his leg and the cancer disappeared.
As I began praying to this saint, asking for his intercession, I also started promoting this saint. St. Peregrine was suddenly in my prayers, my thoughts, and my conversations.
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