Wheelchair-Bound Brooklyn Girl Blessed By Pope May Walk Again

A wheelchair-bound seventh grader who was blessed by Pope Francis on his September trip to New York City thinks the encounter may already be working its magic.

Julia Bruzzese — a 12-year-old student at St. Bernadette School in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn — reportedly suffers from a mysterious condition that caused her to lose all feeling in her legs in May.

In June, she lost her ability to walk or move her legs. She’s been stuck in a wheelchair since.

Hoping for a miracle, Bruzzese’s mom wheeled her onto the tarmac at JFK Airport to meet the Pope on Sept 24.

“He was coming over, and I asked him to bless me,” Bruzzese, 12, told NBC New York of the experience. “I kissed his ring, and he put his hands on my forehead and he blessed me and he looked at me.”

“It means that he’s going to give me a miracle,“ she said at the time.

Within days of meeting the Pope, CBS New York now reports, Bruzzese received some encouraging lab results that could lead to her recovery.

“Pope Francis, the miracle has begun,” Bruzzese told CBS. “Yesterday I went to a doctor’s appointment, and for the first time since I got ill, they saw Lyme disease activity in my blood.”

“This shows me that a miracle can happen if you believe, just like I did,” she said. “If you believe and pray, a miracle can happen.”

Watch the full interview below.