Your True Tales
March 2003 – Page 19

Visit from St. Michael
by Dr. Cheryl G.

While was in medical school, I worked part time in a children's hospital in Kansas City (I have an X-ray license and took X-rays for money while in school. One Sunday, I was taking a chest X-ray of a child in PICU (it was the old hospital with one large room as an ICU with children's cribs and bed in rows in the room). The child in the next bed was dying and everyone knew about this. Suddenly, around the corner and walking up to the bed came a priest: rather tall, dark black hair and piercing blue eyes, pale skin - almost glowing. The strange thing was the clothes - ancient looking cloth with full cassock (robes) flowing to the ground, like priests wore a long time ago.

Everyone stopped working, including the doctors and nurses in the room to stare at this priest who was giving last rites to the child in latin with incense!

I was standing across from him and looking in that glowing face - beautiful! I tried to make eye contact, but he didn't look at me, like he did not see me at all. When he left, I ran up to the ward clerk and asked, "Did you see that? Who was he and did you know he was coming?" She told me she saw him also and it was not scheduled, that she knew of, and could I please run to the elevator and check with the family to see who that was. (The family is usually present when this is done). I ran around the corner to stop them, but there was no one there. It was an old hospital at the time and the elevators were always slow. No one was there or in the waiting room.

I checked with all the local Catholic parishes only to be told there is no order that still dressed in that cassock, except the Society of ST. Pious X in K.C. I called that church and made an appointment with the priest. But sadly their garb did not match either. They thought that I had seen St. Michael giving that ceremony to that child. It is said that St. Michael's hair and eyes match my description.

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