Thomas Bardian
This Saturday, July 9 You Are Invited To Take Part In Brian’s Family Walk Starting At 9:30 A.M. At The St. Thomas The Apostle Church Carpark.
Brian’s Walk
This Saturday, July 9 you are invited to participate in Brian’s Family Walk beginning at 9:30 a.m. At the St. Thomas the Apostle Church car park. The annual event funds scholarship money for local youth to attend Catholic high schools. This year $4,000 got given to 4 graduates of the North Middle College to attend Holy Spirit High School . Who was Brian Woods and why do we respect his memory?
Brian was an alumni of both North College and Holy Spirit High School . Brian was the most courageous and inspiring young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a brief history of Brian’s wonderful courage in life will induce others to do not ever give up hope and to be successful in overcoming grief.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age five. The whole community of Collings Lake controlled by the pastor of the Catholic church took part in the 1st Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to hope and get money for the hospital charges. The illness replied to treatment and went into remission. Brian’s story received much media coverage.
The killer illness returned more than a year later and treatment was reinstated. Then without human reason, it disappeared. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no proof of the illness and said to the elders to stop treatment. The elders did not tell him they had stopped the medicine months previous when they knew that a healing had taken place after Brian attended a Catholic healing service and the sympton’s disappeared.
Brian had beaten leukemia to the amazement of the medical profession. Nevertheless his body was extremely weakened by the illness and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another devastating illness, bacterial spinal meningitis. His family was called to the hospice and told he would not survive the night. Brian’s mother told the doctor that she wouldn’t accept this. The family prayed all night . Brian survived the night and beat the perilous illness, again defying medical reason.
Brian then underwent a long operation to have a steel rod placed in his back.
Brian loses movement, but not hope and religion
Following graduation from Holy Spirit tragedy again struck. Brian’s body was so weakened that he lost the use of his hands, legs and arms. There had been little more medically that may be done for Brian. The insurer would no longer continue to provide care as there was neither progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had wasted. Nonetheless the Woods family continued to live on hope and prayer.
Martin Sheen carries Brian to the pinnacle of the mountain in Medjugorje.
Brian and his extraordinarily spiritual family decided that he would go with his brother to Medjugorje in Croatia, a site of claimed apparitions of the Sanctified Virgin Mary on a mountain in a remote area of the former Yugoslavia.
Brian’s brother Doctor. Lance Woods met his dear the crippled brother plane. The 2 proceeded on the long difficult trip to Medjugorje. At the foot of the Cross Mountain Lance heard a man talking English and asked for his help. The man was Martin Sheen. Doctor. Woods and film star Glaze carried Brian up the rugged mountain in a special chair. The young man who couldn’t walk had overcome another major challenge by reaching the apex of the mountain with help from his brother, Martin Sheen and the prayers of the family. This account of the tale was carried worldwide last year on the website Spirit Daily.com and was broadcast on the radio show “As the Spirit Leads.” Following his trip to Medjugorje more miracles began to happen,writes tagza.com.