Healing / Medical Reversal & Remission

Mary Bolland Healed of Rupture Upon Baptism

Published October 4, 2026 at 7:00 AM

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Mary Bolland, aged 25, suffered from a rupture since her confinement in autumn 1847, requiring the constant use of a truss. On December 7, 1849, Elder Richard Ramseell baptized her, and she was perfectly healed in the act of baptism, subsequently discarding the truss.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 12, No. 9 (May 1, 1850), p. 143):

Sister Mary Bolland, aged 25, and residing in Pool Street, Wolverhampton, had suffered severely from a rupture ever since her confinement in the Autumn of 1847, until her baptism by Elder Richard Ramseell, on the 7th of December, 1849. She had, up to the time of her baptism, been accustomed to wear a truss, or some such instrument, whereby she was enabled to get about with safety, but this she took off before she entered the water, and has ever since dispensed with it entirely, having been perfectly healed in the act of baptism; in testimony of this the undersigned witnesses subscribe their names, at the same time expressing their gratitude to Almighty God, for this and the many other manifestations of His goodness which we all from time to time experience. James Bell, Sarah Hutchence.

In Their Own Words

“Sister Mary Bolland, aged 25, and residing in Pool Street, Wolverhampton, had suffered severly from a rupture ever since her confinement in the Autumn of 1847, until her baptism by Elder Richard Ramseell, on the 7th of December, 1849. She had, up to the time of her baptism, been accustomed to wear a truss, or some such instrument, whereby she was enabled to get about with safety, but this she took off before she entered the water, and has ever since dispensed with it entirely, having been perfectly healed in the act of baptism; in testimony of this the undersigned witnesses subscribe their names, at the same time expressing their gratitude to Almighty God, for this and the many other manifestations of His goodness which we all from time to time experience. — Millennial Star 12:9”

Sources & References

The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 1 May 1850 (Vol. 12, No. 9). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1850-05-01_12_9 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Fuller account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 12, No. 9 (May 1, 1850), p. 143 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1850-05-01_12_9

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