{"id":79744,"date":"2013-08-07T05:51:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T10:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/?post_type=post&amp;p=79744"},"modified":"2013-08-07T05:51:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T10:51:50","slug":"nothing-short-of-a-miracle-mystery-priest-appears-at-crash-site-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/08\/nothing-short-of-a-miracle-mystery-priest-appears-at-crash-site-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNothing short of a miracle\u201d: mystery priest appears at crash site"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>You never see stories like this in the mainstream media, but <strong><a class=\"ext-link decorated-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connecttristates.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=930741#.UgI0WWRoQRs\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s one from Missouri<\/a><\/strong> this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rescue workers want to thank a higher power for coming to the rescue early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>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, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri Highway Patrol says 26-year-old Aaron Smith crossed the center line, hitting Katie Lentz head-on.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ext-link decorated-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/firedepartment.net\/directory\/missouri\/ralls-county\/new-london\/new-london-volunteer-fire-department\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New London Fire<\/a>\u00a0Chief Raymond Reed said rescue crews spent the first 45 minutes after the accident trying to get\u00a0Lentz out of a car to no avail Sunday morning shortly after 9 a.m. The metal on an\u00a0older model Mercedes dulled the department\u2019s equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very well-built car, and when you compact materials like that one, they become even stronger because you\u2019re cutting through multiple things instead of one layer,\u201d Reed said.<\/p>\n<p>Reed says Lentz was pinned in between the steering wheel and the seat. After 45 minutes had passed, medical workers told rescue crews that Katie was failing and fast. That\u2019s when Reed made an executive decision to move the car, which was standing on its side, back on all four wheels.<\/p>\n<p>About an hour into the rescue, Katie asked rescue workers to pray out loud with her. That\u2019s when a priest appeared out of no where.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a class=\"ext-link decorated-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connecttristates.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=930741#.UgI0WWRoQRs\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest.<\/a> <\/strong>\u00a0And watch the video report below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mysterious priest performs miracle at site of Mercedes crash\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/neoqwJVPj74?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never see stories like this in the mainstream media, but here\u2019s one from Missouri this week: Rescue workers want to thank a higher power for coming to the rescue early Sunday morning. 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