Jimena is 16 years old and has two dates of birth. The second is on August 5, 2023. That day, while praying and receiving communion, he assures that he has restored his sight.

“The Virgin did this miracle for me,” she told the media in Europe with conviction. Her father supports her in the statement.

For the family, what happened to this Spanish teenager is a “miracle” and it happened in the middle of the recently concluded World Youth Day, which Pope Francis himself just led in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Spanish Church knows the joy that Jimena lives and gently points out that the doctors must first judge the case.

Cardinal Juan José Omella, Archbishop of Barcelona and president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), reported that he spoke to her via video call and declared everything natural, Aciprensa published.

It was a great event, it could be a miracle

Juan Jose Omella, Cardinal

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What happened in Portugal with Jimena

Jimena traveled from Madrid with a group from Opus Dei to the Portuguese capital, the media reported earlier.

The girl, as she explained to Cope and published by Aciprensa, had been seeing “super blurry, fatal” for two and a half years.

At that time, according to his words, “he suffered from a loss of vision due to a nearsightedness problem until he had only 5% left.”

But on Saturday, August 5, his situation changed. That day, along with family and friends, he continued a novena for his recovery to Our Lady of the Snow, whose day that day was.

“I wanted to be healed and I have, please, asked God a lot,” he said.

She described that while she was receiving communion in Fatima, the “miracle” happened: when I opened my eyes, I could see perfectly, I saw the altar, the tabernacle, my friends were there and I could see them perfectly,” she said. with emotion.

inveterate reader

Jimena, given her visual problem, began reading Braille, but “there aren’t that many novels” that satisfy her interest as an “inveterate reader,” as her father describes her on August 8 for Aciprensa.

The father sees her as a “very sensitive girl and very kind to her friends, always very concerned about those around her”.

Now it will be a great gift for her to get back Moby Dick, the novel she was reading when she lost her eyesight.

Jimena’s father in AciPrensa

The teen, published by Antena 3, believes the event has been “a test of faith” and from now on she will consider that “August 5 is my new birthday, because the Virgo gave me a gift that day that I will not forget”.

Jimena “rediscovers” the world. She told her father that “she reads the signs on the facades and in the streets of Lisbon because it seems like a gift to be able to read again”.

I’ve looked in the mirror and I’ve changed a little too (…) Thank you for praying so much for me

Jimena

The girl’s family knows that what she uncovered “touched many.” “It’s already crossed the border,” said the father.

For the man, whose identity has not been released, what happened is “a gift from Virgo for World Youth Day”.

“We don’t need confirmation,” he says of the “miracle.”

According to Jimena’s father, what happened on Saturday was in the context of a novena to the Virgin and it is Ella who thanks her daughter for this “great gift” that she will not forget.

The euphoric devotee declared, “I’m going to name all my daughters Nieves (after the Virgo)”.