{"id":199925,"date":"2025-04-02T06:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setonshrine.org\/?p=199925"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:07:55","slug":"recuperacion-milagrosa-de-ray-smecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setonshrine.org\/es\/ray-smeckers-miraculous-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"La milagrosa recuperaci\u00f3n de Ray Smecker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>(50\u00a0 for 50 series)<\/em>\u00a0 Ray Smecker recibi\u00f3 una Medalla Milagrosa cuando hizo su Primera Comuni\u00f3n en Munhall, Pensilvania, en 1954. Ha llevado Medallas Milagrosas desde entonces y han marcado la diferencia en su vida, incluso le han llevado a una relaci\u00f3n especial con Santa Isabel Ana Seton.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He credits the medal with saving his life after a head on collision in 1991 in Broomall, PA. After the crash he was rushed to a Broomall hospital where he was told he had a cracked sternum and other major injuries. In the emergency room Ray explains that a priest noticed his Miraculous Medal and said, \u201cYou don\u2019t need, my blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ray was transferred from the Broomall Hospital to the Doylestown hospital closer to his home in Ottsville, PA. The releasing Broomall ICU head nurse said, \u201cI\u2019m here to see the miracle man. In my 25 years here in the Broomall Hospital ICU you are the only survivor of these types of injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six months later Ray went back to work but had painful complications and was facing forced retirement when an Episcopalian friend intervened saying, \u201cI am taking you to the Mother Seton Shrine and once you get there you will understand and be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rays says, \u201cI saw the giant Miraculous Medal scene on the wall and knelt there and after many Shrine visits with my wife Megan and making a Novena my prayer to Mother Seton was to be completely pain-free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the last day of his Novena, Ray says they read the Civil War plaque and he then promised Mother Seton, \u201cNo matter what, I will write a book about your sisters\u2019 involvement in tending to wounded and dying men\u2026and let the world know of the DOC and SOC good Civil War works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ray sums up his story humbly. \u201cI have never had one pain from that accident after the last day of that Novena.\u00a0 And I have kept my promise and wrote the book, <em>El color del brandy<\/em>, dedicated to Mother Seton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">(En la foto, Ray Smecker y su esposa Megan. 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