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Message: [QUOTE="AreBee1969, post: 3299711, member: 7315"] My Dad told me this story years ago about my Grandmother who was an in-home nurse back in the '40s and '50s. One of my Grandmother’s patients was a old and bed-ridden Italian woman. A day came when my Grandmother thought the woman was about to pass so she called my Grandfather to get his priest to administer last rites. (She was English Protestant, he was Italian Catholic). He brought the priest over and the priest believed that the woman wasn’t sick, but possessed by spirits. The priest then brought in an older priest who performed a ritual which my Grandmother witnessed. My father did not have any details of what the ritual entailed, but the patient fully recovered and after a time, walked again. She apparently lived several more years. My Grandmother, whose family despised Catholics (and my Grandfather for that matter), decided to convert and became a member of the Catholic church. My Grandmother was a tough as nails “Swamp Yankee” and she had zero tolerance for bull$hi+. I always chalked up the woman’s recovery to a psychosomatic response, but my Grandmother must have seen something to make her change her religion. Her conversion made her family despise my Grandfather even more and ultimately led to their divorce, which was unheard of in that time. I wish I would have heard that story before she passed, because I would have loved to talk with her about it. [/QUOTE]