One case in which prayer addressed to the Holy Mary Shrine, at 405 North Bayou Drive, Golden Meadow, resulted in a healed fracture is that of a Golden Meadow resident, Mrs. Robert Sonnier.

In 1981, while caring for her bedridden son Murrel, she sustained what was diagnosed as a wrist fracture.

At the time, she believed she was suffering from severe arthritis. She treated her wrist with hot rubs and compresses for two months. Constant preoccupation with her son's daily physical care kept her from seeing a physician. Eventually the pain became debilitating and it interfered with this task. She had to give in and made an appointment with her physician. A series of X-rays showed she was suffering from a fracture. The doctor prescribed a removable brace. She was thus able to continue Murrel's care. But the pain continued, because she refused to take the pain medication ordered by the doctor. I made her groggy and unable to function. As a result, the fracture would not heal.

Two more months passed, and her doctor advised more X-rays. They showed continued bone separation, and she asked to see a surgeon. he recommended an operation, but Mrs. Sonnier felt she could not abandon Murrel's care for the days involved. She chose to endure the pain, and continue in prayer to Mary through the Holy Mary Shrine.

Three days after this visit to the surgeon, Bishop Boudreaux of the Houma-Thibodaux Diocese was scheduled to bless the Holy Mary Shrine in an outdoor ceremony. While dressing, Mrs. Sonnier noticed a blackening of the afternoon sky. A heavy thunderstorm threatened to prevent the outdoor visit tot he shrine. But she knew the storm would hold off until Bishop Boudreaux had blessed the shrine.

At the precise moment of this resolve to go in spite of the weather, she pushed up from her chair and for the first time in four months, was able to apply pain-free pressure to the fractured wrist. Mrs. Sonnier removed the brace and never put it on again.

She attended the ceremony, spoke to the bishop and prayed in thanks to Mary of the Shrine. The threatening thunderstorm drenched Golden Meadow, minutes after the outdoor ceremony was completed.

Mrs. Sonnier remains firmly convicted that prayer and faith resulted in the healed fracture. She continued, pain-free, in the daily physical care of Murrel until his death in September 1981.

This is an excerpt from an article printed in the Lafourche Comet, Thursday, November 4, 1982.

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