Prophetic healing of August Frederick Thomstorff
Published October 18, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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Young Woman's Journal Research
August Frederick Thomstorff was healed of pneumonia and promised a family of children by Elder Carl Widerburg, who prophesied his recovery in 1866.
In Their Own Words
“When the physicians had given him up to die, his wife sent for Elder Carl Widerburg, who administered to him in the name of the Lord, and prophesied that he should recover, go to Zion and have a family of children....... When the physicians came the next day “To examine the corpse, they were startled to find the patient recovering and entirely out of danger, and declared that a great miracle had been done.” — The Young Woman's Journal 17:3”
Sources & References
The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 17 no. 3 (March 1906). L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University digital collections. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/12943 (account extracted verbatim from the collection's page-level OCR; research confidence: high)
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