A Fatima Crusader Pilgrim Testifies to:

Fatima Water
Another Cure Through
Dear Father Gruner,
In October of 1986, I was one of the thirty-nine people that accompanied you on a pilgrimage to
Fatima, Portugal. I thoroughly enjoyed and loved the beautiful experience of the pilgrimage bringing
back several momentos for the family including Holy Water from Fatima.
The year after the pilgrimage, October 1987, my 80-year-old husband Adolfo had developed health
problems that required evaluations by specialists who ultimately concurred in their diagnosis that he
had a tumor approximately 7 centimeters (3 inches) in diameter in the lower part of the colon. A
subsequent biopsy confirmed the tumor as malignant.
Due to the critical location and large size of the tumor, the specialists recommended
immediate surgery for my husband, which greatly shocked him and all of the family.
My husband and I have been devout Catholics all our lives, however the devastating diagnosis of
cancer of the colon with impending surgery increased our prayers and my husband began taking
small sips of Holy Water daily, of water from Fatima that I had brought back to Raton, NM
from the Portugal pilgrimage.
After much deliberation my husband half-heartily consented to surgery on November 12, 1987,
without ceasing to take daily sips of the Holy Water of Fatima, making the sign of the cross and
praying diligently.
The surgery on that 12th day of November was extremely long and tedious, increasing the anxiety of
the awaiting family as the hours passed. Finally, eleven hours later after starting the operation, the
chief tumor surgeon came into the waiting room to report on the outcome of the surgery. His first
comment was that Adolfo, my husband's, condition was stabilized and that he would soon be
transferred from the operating room to the Intensive Care Unit on the floor. Then he shook his head
and looked perplexed as he stated that it had taken "quite" a while to locate the tumor which was
malignant. According to all the pre-operative diagnostic tests, including a CAT scan, it had
indicated a growth of 7 centimeters or approximately 3 inches in diameter. When the
surgeon finally found the tumor it was 3-3/5 centimeters in size, actually one half the size
visualized by the CAT scan pre-operatively.
Consequently although the surgery was the major category, the ramifications were considerably
reduced, due to the diminished size of the tumor.
After the major surgery of November 12, my husband started recovering slowly, steadily continuing to
sip the Holy Water of Fatima as soon as he was able to take oral fluids. A few days post-operatively
the surgical resident doctors were making their daily rounds of their patients around six o'clock in the
evening. When they came to my husband's bed, one of the doctors happily told him that the
pathologists post-operative results of the excised malignant tumor indicated "all the cancer" was
removed.
It was indeed a happy day for Adolfo and all our family when the report was given.

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His recovery has continued slowly, yet progressively to this very day, which is remarkable for an
eighty-year-old man undergoing major surgery of such magnitude with little hope of being successful
or totally curative. This was my husband's first and last surgery, he states however he and his family
attribute his successful recovery and total excision of the malignancy to the Holy Water of Fatima.
In addition to sipping the Holy Water many prayers and masses were offered faithfully believing in his
recovery.
Respectfully,
Annie Trujillo
P.S. Please publish this letter in The Fatima Crusader magazine, so people will see how powerful
prayers and Holy Water are when said with complete faith. April 17, 1989
My dear Father Gruner,
I was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease a year ago and through the intercession of Our
Blessed Mother I am well today. I know this because when I was having the symptoms of
this disease I drank the Fatima Water which I received from you. Thank you Father Gruner
for this curative water from Fatima.
Also, thank you for the medals, cards with prayers to Our Lady of Fatima, and the books. I
am very inspired by the latest book, The Whole Truth About Fatima.
Enclosed is a small donation of Thanksgiving to Our Blessed Mother for Her most powerful
intercession and my good health today.
Our Lady holds you dear to Her Heart.
Sincerely,
Jean Greenback,
Lockport, Illinois
The Fatima Crusader
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