In The Third Miracle – An Ordinary Man, A Medical Mystery and A Trial of Faith, Colorado author and journalist Bill Briggs does an amazing job of telling the story of handyman Phil McCord who worked at a convent in Indiana and had a mysterious eye ailment after having cataract surgery. One cold day he was walking across the grounds and soon found himself inside the chapel. He prayed to Mother Theodore Guerin and God for help in having a cornea transplant or just help with this ailment. The next morning, his eye was so much better that the doctors were perplexed. They did not understand it.

But the Sisters of the Convent said it was the intervention of Mother Theodor Guerin who they had been championing to become a saint. McCord soon regained his 20/20 sight. The Catholic Church was investigating alleged miracles that Mother Guerin was said to have been part of and 100 years from the first alleged miracle – this one took place.

Briggs interviewed McCord, the nuns and explored the rigorous court drama and what he called almost a CSI Vatican way of how they name saints. The book reads like a mystery novel complete with drama, amazing characters like Mother Theodore and Phil McCord, the Church and the Vatican. Think – Erik Larsen Devil in the White City – The Third Miracle will capture your attention and is hard to put down.

Lisa