Marcilio Haddad Andrino — St. Teresa of Calcutta (Canonization)

In 2008, Marcilio Haddad Andrino of Brazil developed a viral brain infection causing multiple abscesses and severe hydrocephalus. Despite powerful antibiotics, his condition deteriorated. By December 2008, he was scheduled for emergency brain surgery; doctors discovered they could not intubate him. His wife, Fernanda, had received a relic of Mother Teresa in September and had been praying for him. When the surgeon returned to Andrino's room, he had suddenly awakened, was sitting up, pain-free, and asymptomatic. Immediate CT scans revealed that the multiple brain abscesses had completely vanished without surgical or pharmacological intervention. Within six months, Andrino returned to work. Pope Francis decreed the cure miraculous in December 2015. Andrino attended the Vatican press conference before Mother Teresa's canonization (September 4, 2016).

Brain abscesses do not resolve spontaneously—they require drainage or surgery. The before-and-after CT scans provide objective imaging evidence. The treating physician witnessed the event; Rome Reports interviewed the doctor who was present. Andrino and his wife attended the canonization and have given interviews (CNA, Reuters). Pope Francis decreed the cure medically inexplicable, instantaneous, lasting, and attributable to Mother Teresa's intercession. The medical facts stand independently of ecclesiastical approval.