Healing of the Minor at Twynyrodyn
Published October 18, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Zion's Trumpet Research
A young boy of a Latter-day Saint family working in the Plymouth coal mine in Merthyr suddenly became deathly ill. Miners carried him home on a plank to Twynyrodyn. The boy requested an elder of the church. When the elder arrived, he found the house filled with neighbors and miners expecting a miracle. After clearing the house, the elder took hold of the boy, lifted him to a sitting position, and laid his hands on his head to pray. The boy immediately became healthy and leaped from the bed, despite a doctor later attempting to claim he was merely faking.
In Their Own Words
“On the 8th of this month, it appears that the little boy of one of the Saints, who worked in the Plymouth coal mine, in Merthyr, was struck down suddenly into a great sickness, so that the miners thought it necessary for them to carry him home on a plank to Twynyrodyn. The only thing the little boy was able to make understood was that he wished for one of the elders of the church to be called to him. ... Then the elder turned to the bed to look at the boy, and having taken hold of him and asked him something, but failing to get anything out of him more than from the dead, he lifted him, with the help of another brother, to sit up on the bed, not knowing what in the world was wrong with him; and immediately after the elder laid his hands on his head and prayed, the boy became healthy, and leaped from the bed in everyone's presence! — Udgorn Seion (Zion's Trumpet), June 1849 (English translation by Ronald D. Dennis)”
Sources & References
Ronald D. Dennis, trans. and ed., Zion's Trumpet: 1849 Welsh Mormon Periodical (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University), June 1849 issue. https://rsc.byu.edu/zions-trumpet-1849-welsh-mormon-periodical/june-1849 (account extracted verbatim from the published English translation; research confidence: high)
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