Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Mysterious priest performs miracle at site of Mercedes crash


Posted: 08.06.2013 at 11:15 PM
 


CENTER, MO. -- Rescue workers want to thank a higher power for coming to the rescue early Sunday morning.

Emergency crews spent an hour and a half trying to extricate a 19-year-old Quincy woman trapped in her in crushed car on Missouri 19 near Center, Missouri.

The Missouri Highway Patrol says 26-year-old Aaron Smith crossed the center line, hitting Katie Lentz head-on.

Now, friends, family and those who rescued Lentz would love to find and thank a mysterious priest who they say helped make the rescue possible.

New London Fire Chief Raymond Reed said rescue crews spent the first 45 minutes after the accident trying to get Lentz out of a car to no avail Sunday morning shortly after 9 a.m. The metal on an older model Mercedes dulled the department's equipment.

"It was a very well-built car, and when you compact materials like that one, they become even stronger because you're cutting through multiple things instead of one layer," Reed said.

Reed says Lentz was pinned in between the steering wheel and the seat. After 45 minutes had passed, medical workers told rescue crews that Katie was failing and fast. That's when Reed made an executive decision to move the car, which was standing on its side, back on all four wheels.

About an hour into the rescue, Katie asked rescue workers to pray out loud with her. That's when a priest appeared out of no where.
"He came up and approached the patient, and offered a prayer," Reed said. "It was a Catholic priest who had anointing oil with him. A sense of calmness came over her, and it did us as well. I can't be for certain how it was said, but myself and another firefighter, we very plainly heard that we should remain calm, that our tools would now work and that we would get her out of that vehicle."

The Hannibal Fire Department showed up right after that prayer with fresh equipment and was able to finish the extrication. After getting Katie safely into the Air Evac helicopter, at least a dozen of the rescue workers turned around to thank the priest who was no where in sight. The highway had been blocked for a quarter of a mile during the hour and a half rescue, leaving no bystanders and no parked cars nearby. Lentz' family and friends are amazed by the story.

"Where did this guy come from?" Lentz' friend Travis Wiseman asked. "We're looking for the priest and so far, no one has seen him. Whether it was a priest as an angel or an actual angel, he was an angel to all those and to Katie."

"We would like to find this gentleman and be able to thank him," Reed said. "As a first responder, you don't know what you're going to run into. We have a lot of tools, and we have intensive training. In this particular case, it is my feeling that it was nothing more than sheer faith and nothing short of a miracle."


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12 comments:

  1. Sounds like God sent an angel to work a miracle to me!!

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    1. you got that right, Kathryn! THANK YOU FATHER!

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  2. An Angel!!! Pray to the angels they will you with anything!!!

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  3. The power of God is All powerful.

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    1. It's always amazing what people will grant as evidence of God's intervention in the natural world. This is one such case.

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    2. Glory to God in the highest, and peace to people of good will! Thanks be to God!

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  5. Well, considering that God CREATED nature, it;s not so "amazing what people will grant as evidence of God's intervention in the natural world" when something amazing happens in the natural world. Nature is, in and of itself, evidence of God's intervention in the natural world. :-)

    God Bless...

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  6. Cool! Though I don't know how you can tell a Catholic priest from an LCMS one just by looking.

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    1. The Anointing of the Sick is one of the seven sacraments used in the Catholic Church. Catholic priests use this for the faithful who believe they are in danger of death because of sickness or old age, and of course, if they are dying.
      The Catechism explains:
      "The special grace of the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick has as its effects: the uniting of the sick person to the passion of Christ, for his own good and that of the whole Church; the strengthening, peace, and courage to endure in a Christian manner the sufferings of illness or old age; the forgiveness of sins, if the sick person was not able to obtain it through the sacrament of penance; the restoration of health, if it is conducive to the salvation of his soul; the preparation for passing over to eternal life" (CCC 1532).


      This must have been amazing to witness.. The things Jesus does to strengthen our faith is simply beautiful and awesome.. God is awesome!!!!

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    2. A God incidence I like to call them. Amen

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