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Dolores Campbell was seven months pregnant with what she thought was her twelfth child, when she found out that she was carrying twins.
She was advised against continuing the pregnancy—she was forty-two, and the babies were at high risk of being mentally and physically impaired.
Dolores and her husband, John, never for a minute considered abortion. Instead, they prayed and asked others to pray. Dolores called her friends at the Carmelite monastery in Buffalo, New York, who had prayed often for her over the years.
Gifts of the Sacred Heart. When James and Joseph were born, on February 2, 1980, it didn’t look good. An obstruction had left them so malnourished that one seemed underdeveloped and the other one close to death. Seeing Joseph’s withered skin, his father thought he was dead.
“But Srs. Mary Joseph and Mary Clara prayed for the twins and reassured me,” Dolores says. “We dedicated them to the Sacred Heart.”
Within two weeks, the boys…
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