{"id":87957,"date":"2026-10-29T08:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87957"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:27:00","slug":"nj-teen-set-on-priesthood-had-vision-of-virgin-mary-before-his-tumor-miraculously-shrank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/nj-teen-set-on-priesthood-had-vision-of-virgin-mary-before-his-tumor-miraculously-shrank\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Teen Set On Priesthood Had Vision Of Virgin Mary Before His Tumor Miraculously Shrank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/dominic-auricchio-overlook-hospital-summit-139369915.jpg?w=768\" alt=\"Dominic Auricchio smiling in a hospital bed with a bandage wrapped around his head.\" width=\"193\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a dream and God came to me,\u201d the now 13-year-old recalled to The Post. \u201cHe told me to be a priest, and then I went into my mom\u2019s bedroom . . . it was the middle of the night . . . and ever since then I\u2019ve wanted to become a priest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The rising eighth-grader at Holy Trinity School in Westfield, NJ, has kept his commitment to the cloth \u2014 alongside other aspirations. \u201cIt\u2019s now priest slash Marine. I want to become a Marine first and then join the priesthood,\u201d said Dominic, whose father, Neal, is a Marine who served two tours in Iraq and was awarded the Purple Heart. Dominic began suffering from headaches in December 2022, and an MRI revealed a large mass on his brain. Months later, in May 2023, Dominic said the Virgin Mary appeared in his bedroom to assure him he\u2019d recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): \u201cI had a dream and God came to me,\u201d the now 13-year-old recalled to 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":["post-87957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87957","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=87957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87959,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87957\/revisions\/87959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}