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Venerable Anthony Kowalczyk
Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate, Brother
1954
For years, a couple from Rozdrazew, Poland, wished to have a child. After a miscarriage, the couple started to seek the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk. Another miscarriage happened. Finally in 1954 the woman gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
1955
A mother from Zduny, Poland, had heard about Bro. Anthony in his place of birth, in Dzierzanów. She had great difficulties in the education of her son. She is convinced that all the difficulties disappeared thanks to the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk.
1955
The parish priest of Soniesc, Poland, recovered well from gallstones. He was sick for two months. He was too weak for an operation. Together with his family he asked the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk and got well.
1955
A ten month old baby was hospitalized in Lincoln, USA. There was not much hope for the infant. Every time the doctors claimed that the child was dying, the nurse, a Franciscan Sister, would say: “We have to keep Bro. Anthony busy!” The little boy survived every crisis. Even a Protestant doctor confessed that the boy’s health is a miracle.
1958
A one-year-old boy from Lablachére, France, suffered from a difficult hernia. The boy was hospitalized in August, 1958. The situation was critical. The family prayed the novena to obtain the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk. They even touched the body of the boy with a second class relic. Without surgery the boy got better.
1961
A lady from Monterbauer, Germany, reported that her 82 year-old husband survived a major health crisis in the year of 1961-1962 through the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk. The lady obtained the prayer card for the novena from an Oblate in France.
1964
A girl from Quebec, Canada, attributes her success in school exams to the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk.
1965
A religious sister of St. Elisabeth, from Gdansk, Poland, had suffered for six years with a painful eye inflammation. No doctor could help. She is convinced that the amelioration came through the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk.
1990
In September, 1990, a lady from Elk Point, Canada, suffered a presumed heart vessel blockage. After being airlifted to a hospital in Edmonton, she received the sacrament of the sick. During a medical test she suffered cardiac arrest. Only days after surviving that critical situation, the doctors diagnosed a malignant virus in the right ventricle with damage to the heart. A heart transplant was planned. Her life was in danger. Her brother-in-law, a missionary Oblate, initiated the novena prayer to obtain the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk. In no time, improvement took place. The doctors had no explanation as to how the virus left the person. Six weeks after leaving the hospital, the lady was fine again.
1992
A man from Edmonton, Canada, lost the keys to his neighbor’s house. He is convinced that he found them in an impossible place through the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk.
1993
A woman from St. Albert, Canada, suffered from breast cancer. In 1989, her right breast was removed. In September, 1992, the cancer returned. She was given chemotherapy for cancer of the liver. At that time, the woman asked God for the first time for Bro. Anthony’s intercession. She prayed the novena prayer every day. From October onwards an amelioration was taking place. By March 1993 all signs of cancer were gone. In September, 1993, her complete cure was diagnosed.
1993
A religious sister, working in the bishop’s house of Cornwall, Canada, fell from a ladder and broke her hip. That was in mid-1993. It was a bad fracture that developed into gangrene. Amputation was considered by the doctors. Three religious sisters immediately began a novena to obtain the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk. After a few days, when a final decision about a possible amputation of the leg had to be made, the doctors were surprised to see amelioration. There was still a question whether the sister could ever walk again. In November, sister walked again. Doctors considered it as a “miracle”.
1997
A young man from Kalicz, Poland, 21 years old, was involved in a car accident and broke both legs. Due to a pulmonary embolism, the man fell into a coma. After 13 days of unconsciousness, the sister of the injured man contacted a Polish Missionary Oblate. He immediately asked, in prayer, the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk. The Oblate encouraged the whole family, who had never heard about Bro. Anthony, to pray the novena. After four weeks, the young man came out of the coma. After two months, he started to walk again, and, four weeks later, he was able to leave the hospital. The family is convinced that Bro. Anthony´s intersession helped to cure the young man and helped the family to come back to a regular prayer life.
2001
A mother from New Waterford reported that she asked the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk for the conversion of her son, that he would find new direction in his life. She says that the son “completely turned around, because of Bro. Anthony”.
2013
A mother from Versailles, France, reports that her son finally found a job after asking the intercession of the Servant of God Anthony Kowalczyk.