{"id":84254,"date":"2026-07-09T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84254"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:38:05","slug":"earthquake-survivor-in-venezuela-the-miraculous-medal-saved-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/earthquake-survivor-in-venezuela-the-miraculous-medal-saved-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake Survivor In Venezuela: \u2018The Miraculous Medal Saved Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>EWTN News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ewtn\/image\/upload\/c_fill,w_3840,h_2400,g_auto\/f_auto\/q_80\/v1\/ewtn-news\/en\/Kamar-Medalla-Milagrosa_t0hged_jehceb.jpg?_a=BAVMn6E70\" alt=\"Cloudinary Asset\" width=\"277\" height=\"173\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Playa Grande, a neighborhood in the city of La Guaira, Venezuela, Kamar Gal\u00edndez was on the top floor of Chipi\u2019s Beach Hotel, preparing to start his daily workout in the gym, unaware that his life was about to change forever.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News, Gal\u00edndez, a 53-year-old lawyer, recalled how the heavy gym machines began moving from one side to the other, much like an air hockey puck. Disaster struck within seconds&#8230; On his way to his home, which was also completely destroyed, a couple of young people helped Gal\u00edndez with first aid. While they were tending to him, he became aware of one of those small miracles that holds profound meaning for someone with sincere faith.\u00a0He asked the young people to help him put his watch into one of the pockets of his shorts, as he needed to remove it to hold his fractured arm still. And then, the inexplicable happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EWTN News: In Playa Grande, a neighborhood in the city of La Guaira, Venezuela, Kamar Gal\u00edndez was on the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84255,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84254\/revisions\/84255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}