Healing of Mary Roderick in Aberavon
Published October 4, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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Millennial Star Research
Francis D. Hughes administered to Mary, the seven-year-old daughter of Mrs. William Roderick, who suffered from palsy, shivers, and extreme emaciation. Doctors had pronounced her beyond recovery, but she was restored to health after the administration.
In Their Own Words
“Some time ago I was at Aberavon, and administered to Mrs. Wm. Roderick’s daughter, by her mother’s request. The child’s name is Mary ; her age is seven years. She had something like the palsy—was all of a shiver, and one of her eyes was disfigured ; she was almost a skeleton. The doctors had done all they could for her, but said she was beyond recovery: Thanks be to God, however, the child is now as strong and as healthy as any other. — Millennial Star 26:12”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 19 March 1864 (Vol. 26, No. 12). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1864-03-19_26_12 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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