A medal-winning
athlete at this year’s Rio Olympic Games has gifted her bronze
medal to the shrine of St. Mary of Marija Bistrica in her native
Croatia in thanks for answered prayers ahead of the games.
Champion high-jumper
Blanka Vlasic has revealed that she nearly missed the 2016 games due
to complications from surgery to a leg injury and only travelled
after she prayed to God for the strength to compete. That trip, like
her subsequent qualifying jump, was made through the pain of her
injury.
“Not even a book
would be enough to explain why this is another miracle of God,” she
said of her first successful jump. “All glory to Jesus.”
Having qualified for
the final, Vlasic went on to scoop the bronze and immediately decided
on her course of action at the Marian shrine.
“All the medals
are God’s, but this one is especially his,” she said.
(Irish Catholic, September 22, 2016)
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