Inocência's Breast Cancer Healing Through Faith

In his work The City of God, in book 22, chapter 8, Saint Augustine recounts an extraordinary miracle that he himself witnessed.

A Christian woman named Innocence, a resident of Carthage, suffered from breast cancer. The disease had been examined by doctors, who declared it incurable. With no hope of a human solution, Innocence turned to God with faith and prayer.

Thus, as Easter approached, she had a dream with very specific instructions: she should wait outside the baptistery, and the first woman to come out, newly baptized, should make the sign of the cross over her cancer.

Inocência, with her faith renewed by the vision in her dream, follows the divine guidance. As soon as the first newly baptized woman emerges from the waters of baptism, Inocência approaches and asks for the gesture.

And what happens? Before everyone's eyes, and to the amazement of the doctors who had given up on her, the woman is completely healed. The tumor disappeared, and her health was completely restored.

This is one of several miracles that St. Augustine records in his work as having occurred in his own time.

_{Referência: A Cidade de Deus - Santo Agostinho (domínio público)}