Angel saves cancer child … and her atheist dad
By DEREK CLONTZ
Your World Report
A CHERUBIC angel with flowing red hair saved a terminally-ill child
from certain death in a hospital cancer ward with no more effort than a hug, a kiss and
the tenderly-whispered words: “God wants you to get up. You are healed
… ” - but that’s just half the miracle.
Within seconds of realizing what had happened, the 7-year-old girl’s father, an
avowed atheist and best-selling author who once told Pope John Paul II that “God, if
He exists at all, ought be shot” and called Jesus Christ “a third-rate carpenter
with a first-rate lie” fell to his knees in full view of shellshocked doctors
and nurses, professing a new and undying belief in both God and Christ.
To ice the cake, Jean-Philip DeMarcourt is now preaching the gospel to anybody who will
listen and openly wonders why The Man Upstairs chose to save his daughter from certain
death and him from eternal damnation.
“Why us? Why did He save us?” Delacourt asked me in an telephone interview
from his office in Jerusalem. ”All my life I have done everything in my power to
discredit even the idea of God.
“I made a mockery of the Bible. I said God was dead. I said if God weren’t
dead, then He should be. And yet, He sent His angel to lift my own daughter up from death
and restore her to health, not through a medical procedure, not through the handiwork of a
doctor or a nurse, but through His infallible power alone.
“I saw the miracle unfold with my own eyes. I saw the angel with my own
eyes,” he continued. “God is real.”
Delacourt and his family hail from Paris but moved to Jerusalem
last August while he conducted research on a book - since scrapped - that he had
tentatively entitled: The REAL Father of Jesus Christ - Joseph the Philanderer.
Doctors diagnosed little Catherine Delacourt as having inoperable brain cancer in
September after she suffered several blackouts at school.
On November 12, they informed Delacourt the child had just days to live. Sitting
by his daughter’s bed, with privacy curtains drawn around them, Delacourt witnessed
the miracle that altered his life, and his daughter’s life, forever.
“Talking about it seem so ridiculous - there are no words for what happened in
that ward,” he said. “The angel was small - like a child - with tiny white
wings. Her hair was flaming red. She glowed with an unearthly light.
“She hugged Catherine and kissed her. And she whispered in her ear. She said,
‘God wants you to get up. You are healed.’ I was speechless, but I didn’t
have to speak. Catherine sat up and then stood up on the bed and shouted, ‘I’m
well, Daddy - I’m well!’”
Said one neurologist familiar with the case: “Don’t ask me to explain what
happened - if I could do that I would have healed the child myself. If you want to talk
about angels, talk to the family. All I can tell you is that a child who couldn’t
possibly be alive today is not only alive, but completely well.”
Catherine herself told me in a telephone interview: “I want to be an angel when I
grow up and help people like my angel helped me.”
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