“Since the Cause of the canonization of Blessed Martin de Porres was introduced in 1926, miracles were investigated by the Church authorities, and two of these were accepted as being true and unimpeachable miracles which must be attributed to the direct intercession of Blessed Martin.
One of these is known as the ‘Paraguay Miracle’ which took place in 1948 and the other as the ‘Tenerife Miracle’ which occurred in 1956.
THE PARAGUAY MIRACLE:
Dorothea Caballero Escalante, an 87 year old lady from Paraguay, was given just a few hours to live. She had severe intestinal blockage and had suffered a heart attack. One of the doctors attending her who was her grandson went home to make arrangements for her funeral on the following day.
Meanwhile in Buenos Aires about a 1000 miles away, her daughter and some friends were praying to Blessed Martin unceasingly. An hour or so after her mother had been given up by the doctors, her daughter in Buenos Aires attended Benediction in a church near her home and begged Blessed Martin to cure her mother. Late that night she couldn’t sleep and at 2 a.m. got up to say 15 decades of the Rosary, asking above all through the intercession of Blessed Martin that her mother would still be alive by the time she herself could reach her mother’s home in Paraguay.
Arriving in Paraguay, she found an excited household. A miracle had occurred. Her mother had stopped the terrible vomiting at the time she was praying for her at Benediction in Buenos Aires and when she was saying her three Rosaries at 2 a.m. in the morning the old lady had suddenly began to improve. The improvement continued, resulting in a complete recovery so much that, two or three days later, the 87 year old was up and about as if nothing had happened to her.
THE TENERIFE MIRACLE:
In 1956 Antonio Cabrera Perez, a young boy of just four and a half was out walking and playing with his friend. Passing by a house under construction Antonio playfully grabbed from his friend a bar of soap which the other had in his possession and threw it over one of the unfinished walls of the house. His friend began to cry loudly and Antonio decided to climb the unfinished wall to retrieve the bar of soap. However the cement blocks of the wall were only lying loosely on top of one another and as Antonio climbed over he dislodged one of these blocks which weighed about 60lbs. He tumbled to the ground and the cement block which he had dislodged fell down on him and crushed his left foot. On hearing the news, his mother immediately telephoned her husband and they rushed their son to the nearest doctor.
About three hours later the boy was examined in the hospital in Santa Cruz and the parents were told that the leg would probably have to be amputated. Gangrene had set in and the lesions of arteries and veins were such that the toes of his left foot had turned black. By the end of the week the boy had a yellow colour all over and it became clear that an amputation was imperative.
Shortly after the decision to amputate was taken a Spanish friend of the family arrived in Santa Cruz on business. He was informed of the accident and, on going to the hospital, was shocked at the boy’s condition and moved at the distress of the boy’s mother. He immediately gave her a relic card of Blessed Martin on which there was a prayer to the Blessed and a small strip of cloth which had been touched to the remains of Martin. He had a devotion to Blessed Martin and always carried the picture and relic in his pocket. Antonio’s mother, as she herself related, ‘passed the picture and relic over the foot of my boy, leaving the picture between the deadened toes for some time’. Later she gave the picture to Antonio to kiss and together they said the prayer to Blessed Martin, asking that the leg should not be amputated and that their boy would bear no marks of the accident.
The sisters in charge of the hospital and visitors also joined in praying.
Within the next two days the leg had regained its natural colour and 23 days later Antonio returned home with his parents. After three months Antonio was able to wear a shoe and later began to play football again without the slightest discomfort.”
– St Martin Magazine, 5/2012
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