SANTIAGO, Chile (CNS) — Chileans call it the Chilean miracle. And this October, when Pope Francis canonizes Spain’s Blessed Faustino Miguez, the woman at the center of the miracle – Veronica Stoberg Tejo – hopes to be in attendance.
Stoberg lives with her husband and family in a part of Santiago called La Florida. In 2003, she was pregnant with her fourth child when she became seriously ill.
Although her son, Sebastian, was born without any problem in an emergency cesarean section, doctors told the family that the mother would die.
Stoberg’s doctor told her to get to the clinic.
Stoberg said she felt like she was dying, and when they finally arrived at Las Lilas Clinic in Santiago, she lost consciousness.
When her family came for what they thought was the final visit, Troncoso asked them to bring the 3-day-old baby and place him on his mother’s breast. When they did, Stoberg hugged her baby.
Stoberg said that although she was unconscious, she remembers Sister Olivares and her daughters talking to her. She said she also remembers the sensation of warmth on her chest from the relic. This evidence was used in the process to declare Blessed Faustino a saint.
When Stoberg finally regained consciousness, she had pain, speech problems, and a problem with her liver, which had been badly damaged. Today, her speech is fine and her liver, although a different shape, works well.
On Dec. 10, 2015, the Vatican’s Council of Physicians declared her recovery a miracle and attributed it to Blessed Faustino’s intercession before God.
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