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 Fr.
Lawrence Edward Banfield, OP
Edward Anthony Banfield was born with convulsions on September 30, 1914 in Chicago. Three
days after his birth he was taken to a South Side Chicago hospital. The doctors didn’t
really know what to do for him so they decided to give him a large dose of aspirin to see if that
would stop the convulsions. While the doctors were in the medicine room preparing the
injection a nun all dressed in black went into the baby’s room and prayed over him. The
convulsions stopped. In 2001 Fr. Banfield had
dinner with Josyp Terelya, a contemporary mystic, suffering servant, and victim of Communism, who
had two visitations from Our Blessed Mother while in Russian prisons most of his younger life.
Josyp was in a cell where air was 60 below zero was pumped in. He was turning blue when Our
Blessed Lady appeared and told him he would be released in February of 1987. Josyp looked at
Fr. Banfield and said; “You are the Dominican priest I was told by Mother Cabrini that I would
meet one day. She is the nun who prayed over you after your birth.”
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