Funeral to be held for tragic mum Frankie
Frankie Devlin A FUNERAL for a tragic woman who was found dead after going missing following a school reunion will be held next week.
Mum Frankie Devlin, 67, from Ballinacurra, Midleton, Co Cork, had not been seen in the Garryvoe area since October 5.
After four days of extensive searches, her body was located and it’s believed she died in a tragic accident.
A wake will be held at T Wallis and Sons Funeral Home Riverside Way, Midleton, on Monday from from 9.45am.
Her funeral service will be held at 11am in the same funeral home followed by cremation service at 1pm in The Island Crematorium, Rocky Island, Ringaskiddy. UNIVERSITY College Dublin founder John Henry Newman will be made a saint tomorrow after the Vatican decided it had proof he had performed two miracles.
Pope Francis beatified the Oxford don and Cardinal in 2010, when Rome confirmed his healing of Boston deacon Jack Sullivan from paralysis in 2001.
Now the Church hierarchy has decided Newman also stopped the imminent miscarriage of a Chicago woman called Melissa Villalobos, who called out his name in a hospital emergency room.
Dr Gerald Casey was appointed by the Vatican in
2013 to investigate the delivery of Gemma Villalobos, now five.
He said: “She fell to the floor and had copious amounts of bleeding and began to cramp – they are signs of potential imminent miscarriage.”
Dr Casey sat on a medics’ panel tasked with ruling out any other scientific explanations for the miracle.
He told RTE’S Morning Ireland yesterday: “She then cried out and invoked Cardinal Newman, ‘Please stop my bleeding’.
“Immediately and spontaneously the bleeding ceased never to recur again.
“The placenta had almost invaded the wall of the uterus. She went to the emergency room and the ultrasound revealed a sub-chorionic hematoma – a blood clot between the wall of the uterus and the placenta.
“There are no medical interventions that can be done to change that. My role was not to be an expert in the particular field but oversee medical aspects of what happened.”
He said two physicians in maternal medicine were appointed and a doctor also gave an opinion for the independent report. Dr Casey added: “None of four physicians could give any medical explanation why there should be a spontaneous and instantaneous cessation of bleeding.”
Although UCD initially snubbed Rome’s invite to attend Newman’s canonisation because it’s a “secular” university, it did a U-turn after an outcry from students, the public and alumni.
A group of 25 UCD staff and students are heading to Rome for the canonisation this weekend. Newman was born in London in 1801. He served as a vicar and a don at Oxford before his conversion to Catholicism.
He died of pneumonia in 1890 aged 89. Pope Francis