How A Spanish Farmer's Leg Grows Back

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How A Spanish Farmer's Leg Grows Back
How A Spanish Farmer's Leg Grows Back
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In Spain, this event is called the Miracle of Calanda and is considered completely authentic. This happened in 1640 and was described in several documents, as well as confirmed by the words of numerous eyewitnesses

How a Spanish farmer has a severed leg grow back - miracle, amputation, leg, Spain, regeneration
How a Spanish farmer has a severed leg grow back - miracle, amputation, leg, Spain, regeneration

At the end of July 1637, a 20-year-old Miguel Pelliser - a farm handyman from the town of Calanda, the region of Aragon, Spain, drove along the road in a cart pulled by a mule. It was hot, the guy was tired and he was put to sleep.

At some point, he swayed and fell off the cart right under the front wheel, which a moment later drove over his right leg, breaking his tibia.

Screaming in pain, Miguel was picked up by the villagers and taken to the nearest hospital in Valencia. However, there Miguel essentially just lay on the bed for five days and received almost no help. After that, he got angry and decided to go to the hospital of the Mother of God of Stolpnaya, in Zaragoza, where, he believed, he would really be cured.

This journey, 300 km long, took him about 50 days (!) And when he finally arrived at the clinic of the Mother of God Stolpnaya, the doctors only had to admit that Miguel's leg was in an extremely neglected state and that gangrene had already begun.

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In mid-October 1640, two experienced surgeons Juan de Estanga and Diego Millaruelo amputated Miguel Pelliser's right leg just below the knee. To relieve the pain, the patient was prescribed various alcoholic and drug-containing drinks, but Miguel still suffered greatly and suffered to tears.

“In his torment, this young man called on the Mother of God of Stolpnaya, incessantly and with great zeal,” eyewitnesses said.

Miguel's severed leg was buried in the hospital cemetery as part of a Christian body, as was the custom, and the stump was carefully cauterized with a red-hot iron.

Further, waiting for the stump of his leg to finally heal, Miguel Pellicer was in the hospital for several months, until the spring of 1638, until he was given crutches and was escorted out of the ward.

For the next two years, Miguel was only engaged in begging in Zaragoza, since now he could not work on the farm, as before, and he could not do anything else. He was allowed to stand near the temple of Our Lady of Pillar, and many residents of the city often saw this one-legged cripple with an outstretched hand.

From time to time, Miguel returned to the hospital to see the surgeon de Estang, so that he examined his stump and treated for inflammation or other unpleasant consequences of amputation.

Every evening, Miguel went to the church of Our Lady of Pillar and asked the workers of the church for some oil from the lamps to rub it into the stump of his right leg. He was convinced that temple oil was sacred and would help soothe pain and heal wounds.

At the beginning of 1640, Miguel became very difficult and he decided to leave Zaragoza for the house of his parents. He came to them at the beginning of March, lay down a little, and then began begging again, as he still could not work in the field. Many locals in those weeks personally saw that Miguel Pelliser really had only a half stump instead of his right leg.

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And at the end of March, something very strange and incredible happened.

Late in the evening of March 29, 1640, Miguel Pelliser returned to his parents 'house from begging and went to sleep on a temporary bed in his parents' bedroom. Usually he slept in another room on his bed, but in those days his parents let a soldier of the military garrison Calanda into the house for a while and he took Miguel's room.

When Miguel fell asleep, it was about 10 pm and there was no one in the bedroom except him.

About half an hour later, Miguel's mother came into the bedroom and froze in shock when she saw that two full-fledged and seemingly completely healthy legs were sticking out from under the blanket on the temporary bed. The woman ran out and called her husband, who at her call went into the bedroom and saw the same thing.

At first, Miguel's father thought it was a soldier who confused the rooms and lay down on the wrong bed. But when he started waking the man on the bed, he saw that it was really his son Miguel.

Miguel slept in a very deep sleep and woke up only a few minutes after his father and mother began to actively disturb him. And when he opened his eyes, having not yet had time to let his parents tell about what they had seen, he began to say that he had now seen a wonderful dream in which he was in the church of the Pillar Mother of God and rubbed the stump of his right leg with lamp oil, as he did a lot once before.

When he saw that he had two healthy legs again and that he was not dreaming about it, he immediately believed that the Mother of God had performed a miracle. His mother and father also talked about the holy miracle.

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That evening, Miguel's parents told about all their neighbors, and those other neighbors. Crowds of curious onlookers poured into the Pellisers' house, who saw with their own eyes that the rumors were real. The very next morning, the whole district knew about what had happened, and a local judge came to the Pellisers' house with two respected doctors. They examined Miguel's leg, made sure everything was as it is, and then drew up a report that was immediately sent to the authorities.

On April 1, Palm Sunday, the fact of the "miraculous regrowth of the cripple's leg" was confirmed by the parish priest Don Marco Segur from Masaleon, who specially arrived in Calanda, taking with him the royal notary Miguel Andreu.

On April 25, completely healthy Miguel Pellicer, on his two working legs, went to Zaragoza with his parents to personally thank the Mother of God of Stolpnaya for her recovery. Along with them was a whole crowd of people who had previously seen Miguel one-legged and now saw him with two legs.

At the request of the city authorities, an official investigation was initiated to establish the credibility of the incident. The trial, chaired by the city archbishop, began on June 5 and lasted for about a year. All hearings were public. Twenty-four witnesses took the floor, chosen as the most trustworthy from the large number of people who knew Miguel Pelliser, both from Calanda and from Zaragoza.

Pelliser's severed leg on a bas-relief in the Church of the Virgin Mary of Stolpnaya (Kalanda)

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On April 27, 1641, the Archbishop of Zaragoza pronounced a verdict on the authenticity of the miracle. At the end of the year, Pelliser was invited to the royal court in Madrid, where King Philip IV knelt in front of him and kissed his regrown leg. Records from those years also show that the reconstructed leg was the same as the one that was amputated two and a half years ago, as it could be re-identified from the bruises and scars that were on it before the amputation.

In addition, a pit in the cemetery of the Zaragoza hospital, in which a severed leg was buried after amputation, was excavated and found empty.

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Already in our time, the case of the regrowth of Miguel Pelliser's leg has been thoroughly studied by Landino Cugola, the chief surgeon of the University of Verona for replantation of extremities (sewing on the severed arms and legs). He found that immediately after "regrowth" Miguel's leg looked cold, hard and bluish, with tightly clenched fingers. It worked in full force only after a few days.

In addition, Kugola found out that the leg was originally a few centimeters shorter, most likely due to bone loss, but after about three months it regained its original length.

According to Kugola, all this fully corresponds to normal development after replantation of the leg, that is, as if something pulled the severed leg out of the grave, returned it to a healthy state and quickly "sewed" it to the place of amputation, after which the leg healed instantly.

House-Museum of Miguel Pelliser (Calanda) and the Temple of Our Lady of Pillar (Templo del Pilar)

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Of course, skeptics also expressed their opinion about this historical incident. According to their theory, in fact, Miguel Pelliser refused to amputate a gangrenous leg, since he decided to play the role of a cripple, judging that earning by begging would be more profitable than grueling work in the field.

Allegedly, Miguel so carefully and sophisticatedly tied the lower leg of his right leg to the thigh that it looked like a leg after amputation.

However, the skeptics' version is debunked by numerous documents of those years, including the protocol of interrogation of two surgeons Juan de Estanga and Diego Millaruelo, who confirmed that they actually cut off the leg. Their words were confirmed under oath by the assistant surgeon and overseer of the hospital in Zaragoza.

Unfortunately, Miguel lived after a miracle for only a few years, having died for unnamed reasons in 1647. Today, in Calanda, you can visit the house-museum dedicated to Miguel Pelliser, where various things from that era and documents that confirm the reality of the miracle are exhibited.

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