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In the early hours of the morning on September 16, 2010 in Peoria, Illinois, Travis and Bonnie Engstrom experienced a nightmare – their child came into this world without breath in his lungs. He was stillborn. Travis baptized the child, naming him James Fulton, as the two medical professionals present performed CPR. He was rushed to the hospital, and 61 minutes after he was born, the doctors had stopped lifesaving measures and were preparing to make the horrible, official announcement, when little James Fulton started breathing. The doctors informed the family that James would have significant handicaps as a result of this lack of oxygen, but in the months to come the tests all started to come back normal. It was….miraculous. As a teenager now, James gives the praise to Christ – but he also feels the closeness of his patron, Venerable Fulton Sheen. And with a medically documented miracle now attributed to his intercession, Fulton Sheen will this Thursday be beatified.
Fr. Fulton Sheen was ordained in 1919 for the Diocese of Peoria. He went to Europe to continue his studies in Philosophy, and taught there before returning to work at a poor inner-city parish. He began a door-to-door evangelization campaign, the beginnings of what was to come. A year later, he started teaching at the Catholic University of America in 1927, and began writing – eventually 66 books in all.
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