Mysterious priest performs miracle at site of Mercedes crash

[Locutus]

CENTER, MO. -- Rescue workers want to thank a higher power for coming to the rescue early Sunday morning.

Emergency crews spent an hour and a half trying to extricate a 19-year-old Quincy woman trapped in her in crushed car on Missouri 19 near Center, Mo.

The Missouri Highway Patrol said Aaron Smith, 26, crossed the center line and struck Katie Lentz head-on.

Now, friends, family and those who rescued Lentz would love to find and thank a mysterious priest who they say helped make the rescue possible.

New London Fire Chief Raymond Reed said rescue crews spent the first 45 minutes after the accident trying to get Lentz out of a car to no avail Sunday morning shortly after 9 a.m. The metal on an older model Mercedes dulled the department's equipment.

"It was a very well-built car, and when you compact materials like that one, they become even stronger because you're cutting through multiple things instead of one layer," Reed said.

Reed says Lentz was pinned in between the steering wheel and the seat. After 45 minutes passed, medical workers told rescue crews that Katie was failing and fast. That's when Reed decided to move the car, which was standing on its side, back on all four wheels.

About an hour into the rescue, Katie asked rescue workers to pray out loud with her. That's when a priest appeared out of no where.

"He came up and approached the patient, and offered a prayer," Reed said. "It was a Catholic priest who had anointing oil with him. A sense of calmness came over her, and it did us as well. I can't be for certain how it was said, but myself and another firefighter, we very plainly heard that we should remain calm, that our tools would now work and that we would get her out of that vehicle."


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[L Gilbert]

Miracle? Consisting of a few words to calm the lady down? A miracle that the firefighters used a different method? lol Must be a miracle that allows anyone to live after a crash, huh. WTF are firefighters needed for, just send a priest. Did he heal her injuries, too? And he appeared out of nowhere? Now that would be interesting indeed.
Anyway, I'm happy she was freed an hope she'll be ok.

 

[captain morgan]

Miracle? Consisting of a few words to calm the lady down? A miracle that the firefighters used a different method? lol Must be a miracle that allows anyone to live after a crash, huh. WTF are firefighters needed for, just send a priest. Did he heal her injuries, too? And he appeared out of nowhere? Now that would be interesting indeed.
Anyway, I'm happy she was freed an hope she'll be ok.

No one is insisting that you believe any of it... Doesn't mean that it becomes necessary for you to dump on those individuals in the OP that simply expressed their opinion

 

[L Gilbert]

Scuse me, but it was just too funny.
Some folks need to grow skins, too.

 

[Blackleaf]

He wasn't a priest. He was, literally, an angel.

 

[Walter]

Miracle? Consisting of a few words to calm the lady down? A miracle that the firefighters used a different method? lol Must be a miracle that allows anyone to live after a crash, huh. WTF are firefighters needed for, just send a priest. Did he heal her injuries, too? And he appeared out of nowhere? Now that would be interesting indeed.
Anyway, I'm happy she was freed an hope she'll be ok.

O ye of little faith.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

The love and grace of the Lord is boundless.

 

[captain morgan]

Scuse me, but it was just too funny.
Some folks need to grow skins, too.

My mistake... I thought that you had a specific kind of idea on that.

Um, this should be in the "jokes" section. Can't rebut a concept with decent argument? Make a joke about it. Old tactic.

 

[Sal]

I do believe that there are people or beings that appear just when we need them, they (the rescuers and the woman) were frustrated and losing hope. The appearance of this man just when needed to calm and inspire them was amazing. I am glad for her that he helped.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

I do believe that there are people or beings that appear just when we need them...

They seem pretty selective about when they appear, and for whom. Large numbers of people die every day in collisions like that one, and in many worse ways, why don't they get help when they need it? Miracles don't happen, coincidences do.

 

[Sal]

They seem pretty selective about when they appear, and for whom. Large numbers of people die every day in collisions like that one, and in many worse ways, why don't they get help when they need it? Miracles don't happen, coincidences do.

I don't believe in accidents or coincidence or really even miracles..., I do not believe god or the higher power intervenes directly. However, sometimes we just get help if needed...I believe energy out draws like energy back...from my perspective she was not yet meant to die... thus she got some assistance. Those present will make of it what they will according to their need.

 

[petros]

Miracle? Consisting of a few words to calm the lady down?

Words are vibrations and vibrations are extremely powerful. It's vibrations that bring order out of chaos in the universe to create the "music of the spheres'.

 

[55Mercury]

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I believe that all events have meaning, that all events are interrelated, and that everything that is a part of a single movement toward the universe's ultimate destiny. Teilhard de Chardin called it "le pointe Omega."

I call it "the punchline."

 

[petros]

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Yer lernin'.

 

[Sal]

I believe that all events have meaning, that all events are interrelated, and that everything that is a part of a single movement toward the universe's ultimate destiny. Teilhard de Chardin called it "le pointe Omega."

yes! the church didn't like some of his ideas overly much eh?8O

 

[Goober]

They seem pretty selective about when they appear, and for whom. Large numbers of people die every day in collisions like that one, and in many worse ways, why don't they get help when they need it? Miracles don't happen, coincidences do.

Dex - Ask. I suggest you preface your questions with this.

 

[L Gilbert]

He wasn't a priest. He was, literally, an angel.

roflmao Do you still have ogres n beanstalks that grow up to cloud giants' castles n stuff over there?

O ye of little faith.

You bet, Wally.

My mistake... I thought that you had a specific kind of idea on that.

Um, I said it was an old tactic, not that I didn't use it, Princess. And since when is a car crash a "concept" anyway? And what argument?

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Dex - Ask. I suggest you preface your questions with this.

There was a time in my life when I tried that, when I believed it would work because a lot of the authority figures in my life gave me the same advice. Nobody ever answered. I no longer believe anyone's listening.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

From the article. . .


The Hannibal Fire Department showed up right after that prayer with fresh equipment and was able to finish the extrication. After getting Katie safely into the Air Evac helicopter, at least a dozen of the rescue workers turned around to thank the priest who was no where in sight. The highway had been blocked for a quarter of a mile during the hour and a half rescue, leaving no bystanders and no parked cars nearby. Lentz' family and friends are amazed by the story.
"Where did this guy come from?" Lentz's friend Travis Wiseman asked. "We're looking for the priest and so far, no one has seen him. Whether it was a priest as an angel or an actual angel, he was an angel to all those and to Katie."
"We would like to find this gentleman and be able to thank him," Reed said. "As a first responder, you don't know what you're going to run into. We have a lot of tools, and we have intensive training. In this particular case, it is my feeling that it was nothing more than sheer faith and nothing short of a miracle."

Two witnesses have described the priest to KHQA. Click here for description.
Katie has undergone surgeries to repair several broken bones. She is scheduled for more surgeries in the coming weeks, but friends and family say her spirit has not wavered.
"Both of her legs are very damaged," Lentz's friend Amanda Wiseman said. "Her wrist is broken, several broken ribs, so she's had a lot of broken bones to deal with."


OK, so the angel came, comforted the victim, and couldn't be bothered to heal her broken bones?

Gee, thanks, angel!