The three miracles of Giuseppe Moscati, the doctor of the poor

In order for a "Saint" to be recognized as such by the Church, it must be shown that during his earthly life he "practiced virtues on a heroic level" and that he interceded at least for an event deemed miraculous before the start of the process that will lead to his beatification. A second "miracle" and a successful conclusion of the canonical process are also necessary for the Church to declare the person concerned holy. Giuseppe Moscati, the doctor of the poor, made himself the protagonist of three miracles before being proclaimed Saint.

Costantino Nazzaro: he was a marshal of the custody agents of Avellino when, in 1923, he fell ill with Addison's disease. The prognosis was poor and therapy only had the role of prolonging the patient's life. There was, at least then, no chance of recovery from this rare disease, death, in fact, was the only way forward. In 1954, now resigned to the will of God, Constantine Nazzaro entered the church of Gesù Nuovo and prayed before the tomb of San Giuseppe Moscati returning there every 15 days for four months. In late summer, between the end of August and the beginning of September, the marshal dreamed of being operated by Giuseppe Moscati. The doctor of the poor replaced the atrophied part of the body with live tissues and advised him not to take any more medicines. The next morning Nazzaro was healed. The doctors who visited him could not explain the unexpected recovery.

Raffaele Perrotta: he was small when the doctors diagnosed him with meningococcal cerebrospinal meningitis in 1941 due to terrible head pain. The doctor who had visited him had no hope of being able to see him alive again, and shortly afterwards, Raffaele's health conditions worsened so much that the mother of the little boy asked for the intervention of Giuseppe Moscati, leaving the image under the pillow of his baby of the doctor of the poor. A few hours after the desperate gesture of the mother, the child was perfectly healed by the same admission of the doctors: “Apart from clinical discussions of the case, there are two incontrovertible data: the severity of the syndrome which made the young man foresee the next end and the immediate and complete resolution of the disease “.

Giuseppe Montefusco: he was 29 years old when, in 1978, he was diagnosed with acute myeloblastic leukemia, a disease that included a single prognosis: death. Giuseppe's mother was desperate but one night she dreamed of a photograph of a doctor wearing a white coat. Comforted by the image, the woman talked about it with her priest who named Giuseppe Moscati. This was enough for the whole family who hopefully began to pray every day for the doctor of the poor to intercede to miraculously Joseph. Grace that was granted less than a month later.