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John Garbutt (Church of England) came to the House of Prayer with his wife, Naomi, on a pilgrimage in October 1997. About 3 years previously, when he was 28 years old, he was involved in a freak accident when four vertebrae between his shoulders were crushed, as were vertebrae in his neck. Surgery was too dangerous. He also developed Osteoarthritis in his lumbar region. All of his injuries were such that and he was in severe pain, was unable to hold a cup and he frequently suffered from involuntary shaking. For the enormous pain resulting from the damage he was given heavy doses of drugs. "The discomfort and severity of my condition" he says, "seemed to make it impossilbe for me to travel to the House of Prayer." His mother-in-law, having been to the House of Prayer in September, gave him a Matrix Medal and Holy Water from the font there and said "You must go to the House of Prayer, there is
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"The discomfort and severity of my condition" he says, "seemed to make it impossilbe for me to travel to the House of Prayer." His mother-in-law, having been to the House of Prayer in September, gave him a Matrix Medal and Holy Water from the font there and said "You must go to the House of Prayer, there is
'terrific' peace there."
His pilgrimage group travelled by boat to Ireland however John and Naoimi decided to fly to Knock, meeting them there. On Saturday 18th October 1997, they attended Mass in the House of Prayer. As an Anglican, John was unable to receive Holy Communion, but he says "I felt a great yearning at Holy Communion time to go up to the priest for a blessing. As it was extremely painful to move
I was helped to the Altar. Hunch backed from the accident I could not look up properly, but inwardly, as the priest blessed me with the Blessed Sacrament I felt I was being healed."
"When I returned to my seat I felt a tapping between my shoulder on the injured part of my spine. I asked my wife "Who is tapping me?" She said, "There is no one near your back, no one is tapping your back." It happened a
second time and the sensation travelled towards my neck. I dismissed what my wife said and I felt someone was tapping my back. This sensation was repeated outside the House of Prayer just before Christina prayed with me in the afternoon. I was helped into the front hallway. I was stooped with the pain from the spasm, which was brought on from the exertion of being helped. I was crying from the pain because I could not move. Christina prayed with me, but I don't remember a word she said as I was gripped in such pain. When the prayer was finished, it took me fifteen minutes before I could move."
"My wife and I were taken back to our B&B so that I could lie down because of the extreme agony of pain I was in. Sitting on my bed intending to use the Pain Machine strange things began to happen. My wife noticed a change in my body, complexion and appearance. The sickly grey colour began to go from my face as she looked in wonderment. My hands went from yellow, greyish colour to red pink natural colour in front of our very eyes. I began inwardly to feel excited, but also frightened because of the change coming over me. Every part of my arms, neck and legs felt bigger, and the scabs began to fall off my right leg. They had accumulated there due to lack of circulation. I could take off my socks, something impossible before,
following the pain of exertion. When I did, my feet were the same healthy pink colour as my hands had become, previously. My right foot had been white hard skinned and scabby, (resulting from the previous poor ciruclation) I was saying inwardly "It cannot be!"
Just then the minibus arrived to pick up my wife. The driver got a shock. I was as healthy as she. I could go without walking stick, brace or anything. I felt a great draw to pray before the Blessed Sacrament, and this has
continued since.
Since my return home I visited my doctor. While she was examining me she said "This is strange." As she continued the examination she said "Your back has returned to normal." Because my vertebrae had been crushed and pushed to one side, they had been fused.
Since the healing, the doctor declared "Your spine and ligaments are now straight. Your muscles are now perfect." She made me stand and bend forward arching my back to further examine my spine. Then she said, "There is mobility in each joint of the spine, your shoulders are also completely in line." Prior to the healing I had been left hunch-back by the accident due to the fusion of the vertebras contraction of the muscles in my back, neck and shoulders. She added "I can now see clearly by your posture and eyes that you are completely healed."
In her statement Maria Fletcher, John's doctor comments, "His latest scan explains why his mobiity has been restored, however it clearly does not explain how. This is inexplicable in medical terms, I feel. However, the evidence is living proof, is it not!"
After these events John had a deep desire to become a Catholic, which he did after
completing instruction in the faith.
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Jed Michael at Our Lady Queen of Peace House of Prayer in Achill, giving witness
to the healing he received after two meetings with Christina Gallagher
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Jed Michael from Seattle, USA, suffered from deep vein thrombosis for three years then had a miraculous healing, which he attributes to two meetings with Christina Gallagher. Jed Michael, now 30 years old, was born at just 26 weeks gestation. He was just 2lbs in weight at birth and was not expected to survive. He did however survive, but due to his prematurity he was faced with many challenges in life. He attended a special school for dyslexia and had to attend an occupational therapist and speech therapist for a severe speech impediment. |
In February 1996, at the age of 18, Jed
presented to his doctor, Dr Sargur M.D. a consultant haematologist, with tenderness and swelling of his right lower leg with deep
discoloration and was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis, which was described as a life threatening condition for such a young man.
On evaluation of his blood he was found to have a rare clotting disorder i.e. thrombophillia or activated protein C resistance which is an inherited disorder. This caused very marked swelling, discoloration of the skin and marked impediment of mobility, added to that the very real risk of clots breaking away and travelling to the lung fields causing fatal respiratory and cardiac arrest.
Because of the extensive nature of Jed's thrombosis he was put on preventative drug and anti-clotting medication in order to allay and prevent any fatal consequence of the disorder. From the time of his diagnosis to meeting Mrs Christina Gallagher three years later, Jed had persistent pain, swelling and
discoloration and weakness of his right lower limb.
On September 12th 1999, in the Marriott Hotel in New York, Jed met Christina Gallagher for the first time, who prayed with him there. Jed has stated that shortly afterwards all the pain had gone from his leg, but he was reluctant to say this to anybody. At this time his family had decided to fly to Ireland and visit the House of Prayer on Saturday, the 18th September 1999. Jed once again met with Christina Gallagher who prayed with him. She then told him "After this, you will have no pain again" and he then informed his mother and father that since his meeting with Christina in New York, that he had been pain free.
Later back in the hotel his mother who had noticed the extraordinary change and improvement in his general demeanour, self-confidence and speech, as there was no sign of the stammering or speech impediment, had also noticed that his right leg, which had been constantly covered by a compression stocking for the previous three years, now seemed to have reduced in size. As he was pain free she pulled the compression stocking from his leg and could see to her amazement that the previous
discoloured, swollen and purple leg was now normal in size, flesh pink and flesh tone in colour, with normal sensation on touch.
On his return to the USA, Jed was reviewed by his consultant haematologist, Dr Sargur M.D., on 12th October 1999. Dr Sargur reported to his remarkable recovery, stating twice that he regarding this as "a miracle". Said Dr Mukund N. Sargur; "The patient is a 21 years old, white, male, with history of deep vein thrombosis, involving his right leg. Diagnosed in February 1996, now with no evidence of deep vein thrombosis and complete resolution of pain (which is a miracle).
"The patient originally presented with tenderness and swelling of his right lower extremity and was found to have deep vein thrombosis. On evaluation of his blood, he was found to have activated protein C resistance, which is an inherited clotting disorder with a high incidence of deep vein thrombosis especially while being sedentary and/or complicated by trauma or surgery. Because of the extensive nature of the thrombosis, the patient had to be place on Coumadin, which he was taking rigorously for almost three years."
"He now presents with no evidence of deep vein thrombosis on repeat ultrasound Doppler study that was done in Dr. Oh's office. He had been having constant pain and swelling over several years, which also has resolved. Ultrasound Doppler study done on 5th Oct 1999 showed that the femoral, popliteal and external iliac veins all compressed completely with no evidence of deep vein thrombosis."
"Due to his remarkable recovery from his original extensive deep vein thrombosis, Jed no longer needs any medication. I would consider this a miracle" the doctor concludes.
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Kathleen O'Sullivan at Our Lady Queen of Peace House of Prayer in Achill,
attending to give thanks and witness to her healing.
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On 16th July 1999 in the House of Prayer on Achill Island, Dr Michael Anketell listened to Fr McGinnity speak of various healings which had taken place there over the years. One in particular stood out for him, which was that of cancer of the pancreas. As the lady was present that day he met her to discuss her story. He describes it as follows: She first became ill on March 17th 1997 with severe central abdominal pain accompanied rapidly with the onset of jaundice. She was admitted to Tralee General Hospital under the care of Mr D F Spillane FRCS Chief Surgeon of Tralee Hospital for further investigation. Scans of her bilary tree showed an obstruction of her common bile duct. She was then referred to Tullamore General Hospital under the care of Consultant Gastroenterologist Dr Humphrey O'Connor MD FRCSI, for a highly specialised procedure in order to discover the cause of the obstruction. He concluded that she had a malignant bilary obstruction and informed her husband before referring her back to Mr Spillane in Tralee. Mr Spillane also concluded that Mrs O'Sullivan had a malignant cancerous tumour of the head of the pancreas which had invaded her common bile duct, causing the jaundice, loss of weight and loss of appetite. He decided to inform Mrs O'Sullivan in early April of 1997 that she had pancreatic cancer and discharged her home. |
At home her symptoms got worse with severe vomiting further loss of weight, abdominal pain and she had to be re-admitted to
hospital in early May 1997. She was now transferred to Cork Mercy Hospital under Prof. Gerry O'Sullivan FRCS (Professor of Surgery in UCC) as her condition was deteriorating rapidly and her husband was desperately
looking to see if anything more could be done for her. She spent five- six weeks in Cork unable to keep down solids or fluids and had to be fed intravenously.
As Mrs O'Sullivan forwarded her records to me for examination, I confirm that everything here is as stated. On June 17th 1997 in a letter to her GP, Prof. O'Sullivan stated and I quote, "This lady's repeat cat scan of the abdomen on 4 June 1997 is confirmatory of pancreatic head cancer. This tumour is non respectable (inoperable) and I am discharging her home for continued pallative (hospice) care". Mrs O'Sullivan was five stone weight on her discharge from Cork having been a previous eight stone, seven pounds in March 1997.
Her condition became much worse at home and her jaundice deepened so her GP decided to refer her once again to Dr Humphrey O'Connor to perform a small procedure to alleviate the jaundice temporarily and give her some relief. She was discharged from Tullamore on the 27th of June 1997 extremely illl at this stage with her prognosis a matter of weeks to live. Her husband had heard only a few days before about the House of Prayer in Achill and decided in desperation to drive directly from Tullamore to Achill as he felt he had nothing to lose in view of his wife's terminal situation.
He described to me how on arrival at the House of Prayer he had to carry his wife in his arms wrapped in a blanket. He described how both Fr McGinnity and Mrs Gallagher prayed with his wife and how he carried her to the chapel to attend mass. He described how on the way home his wife who hadn't eaten for two months suddenly said she felt hungry. He stopped at a hotel in Galway and for the first time in months she ate a full meal. Her jaundice disappeared over the next few days, appetite returned fully and she had a complete recovery within a short time As I listened to this astonishing story, my natural clinical instincts demanded proof as witness to my vocation and training as a medical doctor, to seek her permission and access to her medical records and files. She willingly acceded and all that is stated here is on record according to my study of her care.
When I asked of her regarding the reaction of her doctors to her amazing recovery she responded "But sure I had no need to go back to any doctor. I felt on top of the world and full of energy I hadn't ever had before." As I could see this lady was in excellent health on the 16th July 1999 but as a clinican I needed scientific verification regarding her amazing recovery. She gave me permission to organise a private cat scan of her pancreas. This was carried out on 27th July 1999 by a leading radiologist in Limerick. He states: 1. No trace of pancreatic cancer and 2. No evidence of secondary cancer invading the bilary ducts.
I found this radioligist assessment to be proof that this was beyond medical or scientific explanation ie. complete disappearance of a highly malignant tumour and an amazing physical recovery by Mrs O'Sullivan.
Since the time of this testimony, the full assessment has been given by the three leading members of the medical profession, showing the final proof that there is no cancer in the pancreas or anywhere else. This can only prove the power of God at work in His miraculous healing, as the doctors themselves have witnessed.
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If we let the words of Our Lord from St Matthew's gospel “A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a worthless tree produce good fruits.” be our guide when discerning the truth of the Messages of Our Lady Queen of Peace through Christina Gallagher, we are met with
good fruit in abundance.
Already a selection of the 700 recorded healings have been compiled in a book by the people themselves entitled, “Our Lady Touches Ireland & the World”. This was published way back in 2009. There can be found as many witnesses, who have put their names and faces to their testimony, as anyone will need. They all give witness to the life of Jesus in their own lives through being in the Fraternity of Our Lady Queen of Peace.
There too you will find the essence of the Messages of Our Lady Queen of Peace. A call of love and a call to conversion; A call to live the Commandments, to “Please come back to Me and My Son”; to “Repent, go to Confession, unburden yourselves of all sin and receive My Son’s Body and Blood worthily”; A call to “Arm yourselves with My Rosary and “When you pray, know what you say and to whom you say it.”; A call to pray for priests, religious, bishops, the hierarchy and the Pope, and to respect them and refrain from criticising and denegrating them.
The fulfilment of prophecy further upholds the Truth of the Messages from Our Lady Queen of Peace through Christina Gallagher. Prophecy fulfilled is also outlined below but to name a few here; Earthquake in Iran; War in Rwanda; War in Chechnya; Attack on the Twin Towers, New York; Tsunami in the Indian Ocean; Weather changes throughout the world; Collapse of the Stock Market; One World Currency, One World Bank, One World Government, One World Religion”
In the coming days and weeks this website will present information on all of this, so it may be seen clearly that Our Lord Himself has upheld the truth of the Messages of His Mother through Christina Gallagher.
We can rely on His words, "by their fruits you shall know them.” (Mt.7,18)