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Joe and Megan Hermosillo have always enjoyed their 9-year-old daughter Maureen\u2019s participation in the Living History program at the National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.<\/p>\n

In the program, Maureen portrays an actual student at St. Joseph’s Academy during Mother\u00a0Seton’s time in Emmitsburg, Md., during the early 19th<\/sup> century. She also helps give tours to some of the 55,000 people who typically visit the Shrine each year. The Hermosillos especially appreciate the program because of its capacity for bringing history and the saints to life at the Shrine of American\u2019s first native-born saint.<\/p>\n

Little did they know the ways the intercession of saints would truly come to life for them.<\/p>\n

In early January 2022, the Hermosillos, parents of six young children, faced the kind of health crisis every family fears. It started with a cough. After they both had seemingly recovered from what appeared to be a mild case of COVID-19, Joe began coughing again, feeling increasingly fatigued and found that his blood oxygen level tested low on an oximeter they keep at home.<\/p>\n

Joe Hermosillo called a doctor who told him to go to the emergency room to be checked with more accurate equipment. A reading of 95-100% is considered a healthy blood oxygen level, but at the hospital, Joe\u2019s blood oxygen level came back at an alarming 65%.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey threw me in the ER,\u201d Joe says. \u201cThey stripped me down, they hooked me up, and I must have had 10 staff members around me. I told them my wife was in the lobby and she could make all the decisions, and then I passed out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was horrible,\u201d Megan Hermosillo recalls. \u201cIt was such a weird thing that we couldn\u2019t explain. His symptoms seemed to have resolved, and then all of a sudden, he got really bad really fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the days that followed, Joe continued to get \u201creally bad really fast.\u201d A medical report from the day after Joe\u2019s hospital admission described his lungs as \u201c80% compromised,\u201d and a report from two days later described them as fully compromised.<\/p>\n

Just days after being admitted to the hospital, Joe\u2019s condition was so critical that staff began making plans for his transfer to another hospital and placement on an ECMO machine, a risky, last-resort treatment used when ventilators fail.<\/p>\n

Joe and Megan Hermosillo have always been devoted to their Catholic faith. Living near the National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg makes it easy for them to attend Mass and go to confession there. It\u2019s a place that has been called Catholic Williamsburg, a nod to its programs that bring the history of this American saint to life, while offering a prayerful respite for pilgrims. The Hermosillos habitually pray for the intercessions of saints, as they navigate the highs and lows of family life \u2013 job changes, pregnancies, and minor health concerns.<\/p>\n

So, when Megan rallied friends and family members to pray for Joe, she wanted to choose one saint to ask for intercession. She made a list and sought the advice of a local priest and her confessor, Fr. Timothy Grassi.<\/p>\n

After considering the saints she had suggested, Fr. Grassi told Megan that the saint he recommended was not on her list: Blessed Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus. Megan was not previously familiar with Blessed Michael McGivney, but Fr. Grassi explained that McGivney was devoted to families in distress, especially those without a father, and was an appropriate choice as the Hermosillo family was worried for the life and health of their father.<\/p>\n

As Joe\u2019s blood oxygen level dropped so low that he was at risk for brain damage, Megan made phone calls, texted, and posted on social media, asking everyone to pray a novena to McGivney, asking his intercession for Joe\u2019s complete healing. Thousands responded and passed along the call to prayer, and hours later, in the middle of the night, Megan got a call from the hospital. Inexplicably, Joe\u2019s blood oxygen level had doubled to 112%.<\/p>\n

Despite this dramatic recovery, Joe was not out of the woods yet, and his friends and family were determined not only to complete the novena, but to obtain a relic of Fr. Michael McGivney as well. Then, a family friend, Fr. Bill Kuchinsky, and Joe\u2019s sister Teresa, each without knowing what the other was doing, went to the Seton Shrine and prayed before the tomb of Mother Seton, asking for her help in obtaining a relic. Staff members at the Shrine also spread the word, asking volunteers and others to pray for the saint\u2019s intercession in obtaining a relic.<\/p>\n

Very quickly, the family obtained two relics, and Fr. Bill was able to visit Joe in the hospital, bless him with a relic, and ask Blessed Michael McGivney to pray for his healing. Four days later, Joe was taken off the ventilator, and a short while later, he began preparations to go home where he has since fully recovered from his life-threatening illness.<\/p>\n

Joe\u2019s healing has been submitted to the cause for Blessed Michael McGivney\u2019s canonization and is being investigated as a miracle. Personally, though, Joe and Megan have no doubt about what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just the facts,\u201d Joe says of his recovery. \u201cJust look at my x-rays. They now say \u2018no radiological evidence of acute lung disease,\u2019 complete healing, and no damage.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that Blessed Michael McGivney interceded for us,\u201d Megan adds, \u201cand without a doubt Mother Seton gets the credit for the relics.\u201d<\/p>\n

These days, the Hermosillos share their story with anyone who will listen, and they wonder about the close connection between St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and Blessed Michael McGivney, two quintessential American saints whose lives have been instrumental to understanding American Catholicism. Though their times on earth did not overlap, their geographical paths did. McGivney studied at St. Mary\u2019s Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, a place with special significance for St. Elizabeth Seton as well. The lower chapel at the seminary is the very place that, almost 70 years earlier, St. Elizabeth Seton took her vows of chastity and obedience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if they were spiritual friends during his time here on earth,\u201d Megan says, \u201cBut we absolutely know that they are spiritual friends in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n

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