1846034 Bl. Charles Houben, C.P., Cause: Cure: Mrs. Spaetgens-Verheggen: additional report concerning the miraculous cure of Mrs. Spaetgens-Verheggen, attributed to the intercession of the Servant of God Fr. Charles of St. Andrew. This addition refers in particular to the invocation of the Servant of God by the sick person. The report was made by the Reverend Father Xavier, C.P., Vice-Postulator, during a conversation with the woman who was cured.

--- Page 1 --- attributed to the intercession of the Servant of God , Father Charles of St. Andrew , and practical devotion of Holy Mother Church : such as , the Mass , the Secraments her vision extended to the overall plan of salvation , and she followed the great end devotion to Our Blessed Lady , etc . She did not follow November or " Tridums " Additional report concerning the miraculous recovery of Mrs. Spectgens-Verhogger , emotional . She did not take to unimportant and affected shows of devotion , but Sement of God to quite normal and correspondence perfectly with her spiritual life . in honour of any particular saint . Rather , she practised a sort of active plenty . Miss Spruntgers in a woman of immediate character . She has a consistency of spirit , She is given more to action than to contemplation ; she is more practical than in her marriage she had to overcome on her own all of life's difficulties . In & great strength of mind and resolution of will . As she was a widow from early This addition refers in particular to the invocation of the Servent of God by the realised her invocation of the Servant of God and her consequent recovery from the had visited the house in Munstergelean where the Servant of God was born , All the above explains the particular and personal manner in which were Mrs Spectgens was , and still is an active participant in the work of Clemens- supponents of this , she enjoyed a prudence of mind that did not allow her to be Miss Sportgans-Washington had known for a long time about the Servant of God . Before her recovery , she had never my special devotion to him . However , Likewise , her practice of devotion is neither sentimental or fanatical . The report was made by the Reverend Father Xavier , C.P. , Vice-Postulator , a conversation with the sick woman who was cured . edick person . Charles of St. Andrew . The latter advised the sick woman to make a Novena in married away by feelings or sentiment . The fact that Mr. Sprackgana never had any particular devotion to the doctor # had returned home , who had a visit from her sister-in-law , Mrs After the sick women - who had been found favourable by the hospital she had been pleased to read his life story . Philomans Hamers , who lives in Sittard and is a niece of the Reverend Father Hofbauer . 31 (08 (5 4 . --- Page 2 --- so or , afterwards . It is difficult to imagine more indigantible . There was no spile jelly . I expected that mother would not be able to retain the food . Near- while , mother consumed with a hearty appetite all that food which previously she could not even lock at there wasn't the slightest tendency towards vomiting , or colour of food that her daughter was preparing in the kitchen ; her appetite Following day she had even eaten a monkcoat with bacon . In the morning she she might , She felt really pleasible , and believed that she was about to die . In Navana booklet to the sick woman , who accepted it with greatitude . But there was She did not vomiting and from that time onwards she has never watched again . The the sick woman was not fully aware of how much Father Charles had transferred to returned and she asked for something to eat . " In order to please her , as her her . It was only on the following day that she experienced this . She served the daughter says , " I gave her a little purse , with grey of seasoned next and some bucan and eyes , and on the subsequent day who who had becoming , with an eye . and will bring supported by injections of emotional and morphine - proved a bad ) this state of distress the thought of Father Charles , the Servant of God . It was , the slightest indication of nausea or the like . Mother # able to retain her food . million . Help me in my distress . I do not ask for miracles . Only stop this a question of making a Bavaria . That did not go with her form of spiritual life . as she herself again , like " a voice from heaven " that urged her to invoke the In her mind , she invoked the Servent of God as follows : Some time afterwards , the sick woman - who was steadily getting worse The above happened on the night of the 15-16 February , 1992 . However , oneur of the Servant of God , and to pay to him for her recovery . She also " Father Charles , you still need to perform a missile for your beatifi- more watching , and no more success . She encountered her strength , and by the accompanied by perfect resignation to the will of God . It was a spiritual schehung on once it causes I shall feel cured . But I'm ready to die , if the Government of God . She felt herself filled with a narrowly probable trust in him , something she never previously had and which God alone could give . experience that is impossible to describes " All that I felt in those moments to good Lord so desires " . The sick woman prayed , as she herself says , with an unshakable trust impossible to tell " . ther_Xavier's Additional Report --- Page 3 --- treatify to this fact , and to have the necessary strong taken . The report on the upinion the recovery could not be explained by natural # He was ready to Lilman has also been signed by Doctor P. Haudenberg , a Protestant doctor : # when the Vice-Postulator visited Doctor Contorneys , the doctor said that an his the surgeon that treated Mrs. Spostgans . tremament citizens of the Specialist . However , on March 30 of the following you and his opinion about the recovery . An answer was slow in coming , due to a Doctor Conturnions was informed of the extent of the recovery . He asked , On September 22 , 1952 , Father Xavier approached Doctor Cantemann , to All the above was further confirmed in September by the same Specialist in record , to be able to check out the fact . This was done in August 1982 later taken on June 18 , 1953 and July 17 , 1953 . a visit of Dexter customers to Valberburg . He did not find any anomaly . sick women had completely recovered . ' Two weeks after her recovery Doctor Finishers examined her . He found that was able to judge . was noticably endowed , and a weak later he had to state that the time This report was raised back to Mrs D. Spradyons . Washington , who was unable to find any arose in it in so far as it touched on facts concerning which she herself orted out a supplementary examination in his own home , and by the surveys this 31st. day of March , 1954 . Given in all sincerity . ning of April she was even able to leave her bed " father Xavier . G.P. longer palpable . vice-postulator . alquadi O.Sportsana-Vercheggen .