Miraculous, Mayline Tran is necessarily.

To see this pretty 13-year-old teenager exchanging knowing smiles with her parents, we say to ourselves that we would give her the good Lord without confession.

Except that God, it seems, has already leaned on her.

This is what the Church advances, as well as the faithful of Pauline Jaricot, this Lyonnaise who will be beatified at Eurexpo on May 22, and whose intercession is invoked to explain that Mayline is alive today.

This Wednesday, Mayline and her parents came to the Saint-Polycarpe church (Lyon 1) to present the book telling her story.

The young girl does not wish to speak directly to the media, to avoid overflows on social networks.

So it's her father, Emmanuel, author of the book, who tells how, one evening in 2012, his then 3-year-old daughter choked on a small sausage.

“She went into cardiorespiratory arrest, I gave her a heart massage while waiting for help.

At the hospital, she had several more arrests, and a pulmonary embolism, before falling into a coma.

Ten days later, the exams were disastrous: his brain had stopped working.

Everything was collapsing, ”he says, still very moved.

A state considered irreversible

The medical profession ends up announcing the imminent cessation of care for the child, whose condition is deemed irreversible and hopeless.

The parents refuse.

“During this time, the mother of a school friend of Mayline launched a novena, a prayer lasting nine days addressed to Pauline Jaricot”, continues Emmanuel Tran, who admits to having himself felt certain inexplicable signs at the time. .

Unlike his wife, Nathalie, he was not religious.

The family, then living in Beaujolais, moved to Nice where the Tran had planned to open a restaurant.

And then, almost overnight, Mayline's condition improved.

She opens her eyes: her parents detect life there, where before, this neurological reflex only showed them a black nothingness.

“Nathalie then told me: she's here, she's come back.

Although there were still moments of absence, his condition was improving rapidly.

And one day she turned to my wife, and she said, 'Mom'…”

No sequelae, no medical explanation either

A doctor was present in the room at this precise moment.

Neither he nor the rest of the medical community could explain this dramatic recovery.

Very quickly, Mayline was able to get up, walk, resume her life without any sequelae.

So began the long journey of recognizing the miracle.

A long "trial", as it is called, which ended two years ago with the validation of Pope Francis.

"We had lived our miracle for a long time," smiles Emmanuel Tran.

“Since then, we've made sure Mayline doesn't feel any different.

Above all, that she is not cataloged as crazy.

We protected her as best we could.

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He himself has progressed in his journey of faith.

“We are normal people in a pretty normal world,” he adds.

“You can feel overwhelmed, but for me, the important thing is to make people understand that miracles exist.

It's hard to believe, like me in the past, we all have doubts.

It's huge, we manage it as best we can, but in the end the message is very beautiful: everyone can benefit from it.

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Mayline listens to her father's story.

When he finishes and returns to sit next to her, she gives him her two thumbs up.

A playful teenager, completely normal: miraculous, therefore.

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