Miguel Vargas was a sickly boy. By the time he was 8 he was diagnosed with having a deadly ailment. The doctors at the children’s hospital where he had been treated for years, told her to take him home and enjoy him - he only had a little time left. He had a cancer which at that time had a 2% survival rate.
Instead, she took her dying eight year old son five thousand miles to meet Padre Pollo.
The friars escorted him up to Padre Pollo’s cell while she waited. When they brought him back to her, Padre Pollo said something to her in Italian and one of the friars translated it for her and he said, "The boy will be alright."
Miguel Vargas recently turned 43.