Miracle flies to Rome

Evidence of alleged miracle credited to Archbishop Sheen heads to Rome

With evidence of her son's alleged miraculous healing boxed and sealed in front of a portrait of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Bonnie Engstrom delivers a reading at a Dec. 11 Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria, Ill. Bonnie and Travis Engstrom of Goodfield , Ill., believe their son James Fulton Engstrom is alive because of the intercession of Archbishop Sheen, whose cause for sainthood is being considered in Rome.

Boxes wrapped in ribbon and a happy little boy are Christmas images, but the combination had another joyful meaning Dec. 11 during ceremonies closing the Diocese of Peoria's inquiry into an alleged miraculous healing through the intercession of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.