Mon Apr 3, 2023 – 4:47 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A star athlete. An Irish dancer. The number one student in her high school class. President of her Junior Year.
Maria Middleton was 16 years and four months old when she was given nine more months to live on January 31, 2019.
Here is what her mother Susan said:
As much as I wanted to shut the world out, because the pain was so great, and close myself in, I realized that that was not the right move. We needed prayer.
So [my husband, Maria’s father] Brian and I sent some messages out and before we knew it, the requests for prayers for Maria spread like wildfire around the globe. Saint John Paul II said, “Grace means love and the gift of God Himself.” We opened our hearts to the rays of God’s grace and His love flooded our lives.
On October 31, 2019, exactly nine months after her diagnosis, Maria, Brian and I boarded a plane for Uganda.
On June 3, 2020, being bed-ridden at home now for more than a month, she aspirated and was taken to the emergency room of the hospital. Her
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