Reported Healings at Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine, Euclid
The story in one line
several healings were reported in connection with the Lourdes shrine in Euclid, Ohio.
The basic story
Public reporting around the National Shrine & Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in Euclid, Ohio preserves a named sight-restoration account and later child-healing reports associated with the shrine's Lourdes water and novena prayers.
Historical setting
These reports belong to the American reception of Lourdes devotion, where a shrine in Ohio became the setting for later healing stories rather than a single classical miracle file.
At the National Shrine & Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in Euclid, Ohio, the healing stories are tied to a very concrete place and practice. People come to a grotto modeled on Lourdes in France, wash or bless themselves with water that runs over stone brought from Lourdes, and leave crutches, glasses, or other objects behind in thanksgiving.[1][2][3] This is important because the Euclid file is not built like the formal medical files at Lourdes in France. What survives publicly here is mostly shrine testimony: stories repeated by shrine staff, Catholic newspaper reports, and the physical thanksgiving objects left at the site.[1][2]
The clearest named case in that public file is Vincent Mancuso, who said he regained sight in an injured eye after a childhood visit to the shrine.[1][2] Later reporting added two unnamed family accounts: one involving an unborn child said to have been born with a corrected heart after novena prayer, and another involving a child whose family later said leukemia had disappeared.[2] Taken together, these reports show a living shrine tradition of claimed healings and answered prayer. They do not amount to a released medical dossier or a bishop’s formal declaration that a specific Euclid healing is miraculous.[1][2]
Euclid file
- Place Shrine and grotto The public file is anchored in a Lourdes-style shrine where pilgrims pray, wash, and leave thank-offerings.
- Named Vincent Mancuso The strongest public case is the named account of sight returning after a childhood shrine visit.
- Later Further family reports Later public articles add unnamed child-healing stories relayed by shrine staff.
Shrine site
21281 Chardon Rd., Euclid, Ohio
The shrine was dedicated in 1926 and later described as a national American shrine in public reporting.
Named public healing file
Vincent Mancuso eye-healing account
The 2008 Catholic Universe / Catholic Online report names Mancuso and quotes his own recollection.
Later public reports
Prenatal heart case and child leukemia report
These two later reports were relayed publicly by shrine administrator Sister Phyllis Ann in a 2023 Register feature.
Shrine wording
Blessings or graces
Shrine administrators publicly say they do not formally proclaim miracles of healing at the site.
The named public case: Vincent Mancuso
Section titled “The named public case: Vincent Mancuso”The oldest named public healing file tied to the Euclid shrine is the story of Vincent Mancuso.[1][2] The 2008 Catholic Universe Bulletin report, reproduced by Catholic Online, says that when Mancuso was 10 years old he was accidentally shoved during Cleveland’s Feast of the Assumption celebration, fell, and had a pair of scissors pierce his right eye, leaving him blind in that eye.[1]
That report says Mancuso’s parents brought him to the Euclid shrine the next month for the annual closing Mass at the grotto.[1] His mother told him to wash the eye with the shrine water. Mancuso then said that when they got home he told his parents he could see, and that a doctor later confirmed he had regained sight.[1]
The same 2008 report adds that the eye later suffered detached retina and cataracts, but that Mancuso still retained vision in it decades afterward.[1] The 2023 Register feature preserves a second version of the same file through Sister Phyllis Ann, who says Mancuso later volunteered at the shrine into his 90s and told her that he could still see from the eye that had been cured there even after another doctor warned him about macular degeneration.[2]
Other reported shrine healings in the public file
Section titled “Other reported shrine healings in the public file”The 2023 Register feature adds two further healing reports that were publicly relayed by Sister Phyllis Ann while discussing the shrine’s history of favors and thanksgiving offerings.[2]
One was an unnamed non-local family who, according to the article, made a novena at the shrine because a doctor told them their unborn son was not expected to survive: the heart was said to be on the right side of the body and the arteries improperly connected.[2] Sister Phyllis Ann then said that when the child was born, the heart was on the left side and the arteries and veins were correctly attached.[2]
The other was an unnamed Honduras family who left a child’s t-shirt at the shrine in thanksgiving after reporting that the child, previously sick with leukemia and treated at the Cleveland Clinic, later had no trace of the disease when the family returned home.[2]
No released medical records, names, or diocesan decrees were identified in the public sources for either of these two child-healing reports.[2] What is public is much narrower: the shrine administrator says these families told the shrine their stories and marked the events by leaving thanksgiving objects there.[2]
Publicly documented chronology
Section titled “Publicly documented chronology”- 1922: Public shrine history says the Good Shepherd Sisters were inspired during pilgrimage to Lourdes to build a replica grotto in Euclid.[2]
- 1926: Archbishop Joseph Schrembs dedicated the Euclid shrine.[2][3]
- 1928: The Register says the grotto was named a national American shrine two years after the dedication.[2]
- 2008: The Catholic Universe / Catholic Online report publicly named Vincent Mancuso, quoted his sight-restoration account, and said the shrine kept crutches, braces, and glasses left by people who said they had been healed.[1]
- 2023: The National Catholic Register feature repeated the Mancuso account and added the unnamed prenatal heart and leukemia reports relayed by Sister Phyllis Ann.[2]
- 2024: The shrine’s own site again described the Euclid grotto as a national Lourdes satellite where water flows over stone brought from the original Lourdes shrine in France.[3]
What is public and what is not
Section titled “What is public and what is not”The public file establishes:
- a long-running healing and favor tradition at the Euclid shrine[1][2]
- one named sight-restoration account with direct quotation from Vincent Mancuso[1]
- two later unnamed child-healing reports relayed publicly by the shrine administrator[2]
- a material thanksgiving culture visible in the shrine’s display of braces, crutches, glasses, and other objects left behind[1][2]
The public file does not currently include:
- released medical dossiers for the Euclid cases
- formal diocesan declarations recognizing any specific Euclid healing as miraculous
- published names for the prenatal-heart and leukemia children reported in 2023
So this page is best read as a shrine testimony file with named and unnamed public reports. It is not a Lourdes-style medical case file, and it is not a bishop’s formal miracle decree.[1][2]
Primary-source file
Section titled “Primary-source file”Catholic Online reproduction of the Catholic Universe Bulletin story naming Vincent Mancuso, quoting his eye-healing account, and reporting the shrine’s display of objects left by people who said they were healed.
catholic.org Later shrine-admin interview Coming to Mary and Staying: Miracles of the National Shrine and Grotto of Our Lady of LourdesNational Catholic Register feature preserving Sister Phyllis Ann’s retelling of the Mancuso case and her two later child-healing reports.
ncregister.com Official shrine context A beloved local attraction, Our Lady of Lourdes National Shrine is a scenic spiritual destination where visitors can find peaceThe shrine’s own site confirms the Euclid grotto, the stone brought from Lourdes, and the continuing distribution of water that flows over it.
srstrinity.comReferences
Section titled “References”- Hoke, Wendy A. “Lourdes national shrine in Ohio marks 150 years since Mary appeared to St. Bernadette.” Catholic Universe Bulletin, reproduced by Catholic Online, April 30, 2008. Public report naming Vincent Mancuso, quoting his eye-healing account, and stating that the shrine keeps crutches, braces, and glasses from those who said they were healed. Available at: https://www.catholic.org/news/politics/story.php?id=27789
- Pronechen, Joseph. “Coming to Mary and Staying: Miracles of the National Shrine and Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.” National Catholic Register, October 22, 2023. Public interview with Sister Phyllis Ann recounting the Mancuso case, a prenatal heart-anomaly healing report, and a leukemia report tied to the Euclid shrine. Available at: https://www.ncregister.com/features/coming-to-mary-and-staying-miracles-of-the-national-shrine-and-grotto-of-our-lady-of-lourdes
- Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity. “A beloved local attraction, Our Lady of Lourdes National Shrine is a scenic spiritual destination where visitors can find peace.” Shrine site article, May 7, 2024. Public shrine-history and site-context summary confirming the Euclid grotto and the stone brought from Lourdes. Available at: https://www.srstrinity.com/a-beloved-local-attraction-our-lady-of-lourdes-national-shrine-is-a-scenic-spiritual-destination-where-visitors-can-find-peace