Healing of Anna Santaniello

Anna Santaniello was diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease as a child; the same illness had killed one of her brothers and a sister. Her condition worsened with age; she was confined to bed, barely able to breathe. The doctors had lost all hope. During a pilgrimage to Lourdes in 1952, her illness disappeared. The international Catholic committee that runs the shrine acknowledged Santaniello as the 67th person officially healed at Lourdes. The Bishop of Salerno officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 2005.

The Lourdes Medical Bureau gathered documentation; the International Medical Committee (C.M.I.L.) affirmed the cure was inexplicable in the current state of medical knowledge. The Bishop of Salerno recognized it on 2005. Heart valve damage does not spontaneously reverse. The bishop judged the cure outside the ordinary scope of science.