In 2002, Antonio Sedano was the protagonist of an extraordinary event that he attributed
to the intercession of the servant of God, Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri.
In what follows, we present the footage that was recorded in 2007 for the archive of her cause of Beatification.
BARCELONA 2007 I was undergoing treatment for my vision
because I was starting to have cataracts.
In one of these revisions,
upon seeing me, the doctor told me:
"We're not going to look at the cataracts right now,
because first they need to remove this thing that you have in your eye."
Mr. Sedano came in
and we confirmed the diagnostic of basal cell carcinoma that he came with,
maybe adding that, of the different types of basal cell carcinoma,
it was clearly the type "ulcus rodens",
which is a very characteristic lesion of this kind of cancer.
We immediately marked it as very urgent
and referred the patient to be operated by Dr. Moner.
They examined me well
and said: "This is a cancer
that needs to be operated on right away."
Among the types of cancer, basal cell epithelioma
is one of the least aggresive that there are, we could say:
in principle, it does not metastisize
but at the local level, it does act aggresively.
When it appears in this area, and for its potential aggressivity and capacity to enter deeply,
we are talking about losing the patient's eye, the orbital cavity,
and, of course, potential problems affecting the frontal area of the brain.
I remembered that at home I had
a prayer card that I had picked up a few days earlier
of Guadalupe Ortiz.
A prayer card that I picked up precisely because I really liked the fact
that it was a woman, and not only that, but a very elegant one.
So my father mentioned to me, when he gave me the prayer card,
that he had decided to ask Guadalupe
because he had seen the photo and her face was so...
sweet and lovable that he thought
surely she will listen to me and get me cured.
So, as I was very frightened,
especially because
I have never done well in clinics,
I said to Guadalupe: "Guadalupe, please."
I think I was almost crying when I said it to her:
"Guadalupe, please,
do not let me go back to the clinic, I can't go back to that clinic!
Cure me somehow! You can do it!"
When my father told me that he was going to pray to Guadalupe
I decided to pray to her too.
As my son Andrés has cerebral palsy,
I was used to praying and I usually pray with my son every night.
I myself prayed specifically to Guadalupe for my father's cure,
and then also in our evening prayers with Andrés.
I got up the next morning
I went to the mirror, as I did every morning,
to look at myself and see how the tumor was.
I got up,
I looked at myself in the mirror,
and I saw that I didn't have anything.
I have a magnifying glass, because I like drawing, painting...
I looked at myself in the mirror with the magnifying glass
and not only is the little tumor gone, there's not even a little trace of it!
I was left...
I don't know...
in a special state.
I didn't know what to do,
except...
smile and rejoice.
I think I didn't even remember Guadalupe in that moment.
It was later on when I said, "Guadalupe, thank you,
without a doubt, it was you."
I made a phone call
to the Clinic to tell them
that I was not going to go there that day,
I said I wasn't going to come for the surgery
because I didn't have anything.
What a surprise for me when the following Monday,
when the patient was scheduled to have the operation,
the patient did not present himself.
And the secretary was left speechless, until she told me,
when she was finally able to say something:
"You will need to say all this, personally, to the doctor
and for this reason, I will give you an appointment."
I saw that there was no scar, there was nothing,
and I thought, "They really operated him well."
So I told him, "I see that you are fine,
where did you have the surgery?"
And he said, "No, no, I haven't had any surgery."
And I said: "What do you mean you haven't had surgery? These things don't just leave..."
"The thing is that I haven't had surgery.
I...
I prayed for it
and...
and then it disappeared."
"Who did you pray to?
"To Guadalupe,
Guadalupe Ortiz".
I looked at the area where the tumor had been,
what coincided with the drawing I had done in the clinical report,
and there was absolutely no trace of a surgical scar.
It was a "restitutio ad integrum", of all the skin
and, of course, nobody could tell that there had been a wound there before.
From the moment I referred the patient to Dr. Moner,
I lost track, which is pretty normal
because he was now in another doctor's hands.
And then I was surprised, and remained very surprised over the years,
to see that the wound had disappeared in very short time,
in a very spontaneous way.
And that was it,
I mean, I saw the man again another time after that,
perfectly cured and
from a scientific point of view, there was no explanation for it
because in 24 hours, even when you're dealing with a supposed keratoacanthoma,
you cannot remove it without leaving some kind of scar.
From a personal point of view
one can think, according to their beliefs, that this is a miracle.
In any case, it is a very surprising occurrence which, from my point of view, has no explanation;
there is no explanation from the ophthalmologist's point of view either,
What is certain is that this man can consider himself cured.
We gave thanks to God
because we thought that it really had been a miracle.