In the last few days I have read a book about Pedro Ballester and yesterday I was moved to ask him for a favour.
I work as a chaplain in a cancer hospital in Madrid. I have been away for several days, doing a retreat. Yesterday I received a message from a long-term cancer patient, whom I have been caring for, in which she told me that she was having a very bad time because of the terrible pain she was in and that there was no way to get rid of it with drugs. She had been like this for several days.
I immediately prayed the prayer card for private devotion to Pedro Ballester, asking him to take away this friend's pain: “Look,” I told him, “you know very well what cancer pain is all about... My friend's name is M and she is in room XXX at the YYYY Hospital in Madrid. To get there more easily, ask the help of your guardian angel.” I prayed this prayer around 21.00, I remember it perfectly.
Today, back in Madrid, I went to visit this patient and she told me that at 23.00 the pain went away, that she slept as she had not slept for a long time, and that today, Sunday, she was hardly taking any painkillers.
I write this testimony because I consider that it has been a favour from Pedro Ballester.
Fr AGG-S (Madrid, Spain)
6 March 2023