Easter ‘miracle’ as dead man returns to life
Declared dead by doctors, then rescued from the mortuary, Freddie Maguire has made such a strong recovery that he has been nicknamed Jesus Christ.
Mr Maguire, 47, from Dublin’s north inner city, was pronounced dead by doctors at the Mater Hospital after they fought for 30 minutes to save his life on Easter Day.
Mr Maguire’s relatives were coming to terms with their loss when they were informed that he was, in fact, alive. A member of staff saw his hand move as he was about to be put into a mortuary refrigerator.
Frances Maguire, his aunt, said: “He’s all right now and he’s back the way he was before this terrible thing took place.
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World’s First Twins Born To Two Differnt Women
Born minutes apart and with almost identical looks, there seems little to set Lauren and Hannah Bernaba apart from any other pair of newborn twins.
But the girls are the world’s first twins to be born on the same day to two different women.
First, biological mother Amy Bernaba gave birth to Lauren, weighing 7lb 10oz, then, half an hour later, surrogate mum Torry Keay delivered 7lb 3oz Hannah.
The double pregnancy happened after Mrs Bernaba and husband George had undergone IVF treatment for 12 years in an effort to conceive a baby brother or sister for their son Jeremy, now 15.
Eventually, doctors decided that 40-year- old Mrs Bernaba would almost certainly be unable to carry another baby because of a problem with her immune system.
So they tried an extremely unusual procedure, implanting eggs fertilised by Mr Bernaba’s sperm into her womb and also into surrogate Mrs Keay’s.
Mrs Keay became pregnant, and against all the odds so did Mrs Bernaba. Both women had straightforward pregnancies before giving birth on May 27 in neighbouring rooms in a Los Angeles hospital.
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Dallas man’s walking stick reaches Vatican via Bush
I automatically thought of Mr Eko from Lost while reading this.
Also, does this mean that W is a re-gifter?
DALLAS – Roosevelt Wilkerson works alone in a cluttered one-room apartment atop an East Dallas laundry room.
The surroundings may be humble, but Mr. Wilkerson’s fame now extends to the Vatican.
On Saturday, President Bush presented Pope Benedict XVI with one of Mr. Wilkerson’s hand-carved walking sticks inscribed with the Ten Commandments.
“I’m just dumbfounded,” said Mr. Wilkerson, 62. “It’s a big honor to me. I don’t know what to say.”
President Bush, who owns two of the sticks, included one of Mr. Wilkerson’s creations in a gift exchange with the pope. Reporters covering the meeting heard Mr. Bush describe the stick as “a piece of art by a former homeless man from Texas … Dallas.”
“The Ten Commandments?” the pope asked.
“The Ten Commandments, yes, sir,” the president replied.
Mr. Bush received his first stick from Mr. Wilkerson a decade ago when he was Texas governor.
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