A medically confirmed healing of childhood leukemia

Translated from Portuguese

We were living in the north of Brazil, and my husband traveled a lot on business. I was often alone with our two children, and my younger child, Virgilius, who was two, had many health problems. Since I had to decide for myself how to care for him, I took the boy to the doctor, and we began a long series of examinations and tests, in three different cities.

The diagnosis, unfortunately, was always the same: leukemia. I was told that with the treatments they could offer, Virgilius would live, at the most, to the age of six.

Although I didn't yet have much trust in Christian Science, I agreed with my husband to treat our son exclusively through prayer as taught in Christian Science. It was the only hope left to us. And since it was our only hope, I decided to start studying the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. We asked for the help of a Christian Science practitioner in a distant city, and we stayed in touch by phone.

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