Prayer for lost diamond answered
BOSTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- A Cambridge, Mass., oncology nurse says her prayers to St. Anthony helped recover a diamond missing from her engagement ring for four months.
Betty Ann Burns-Britton received the one-carat diamond re-set in a gold band with a heart in it more than 30 years ago but discovered the rock missing May 3 when she started her shift 6 a.m. at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston Globe reported Sunday.
"I knew this was minor," Betty said, bursting into tears. "But my heart wasn't telling me that."
Bonnie Filicicchia, a nurse finishing up her night shift, hung around helping Betty look around the hospital for the missing diamond. Getting nowhere, Bonnie decided on divine intervention, the newspaper said.
"Oh holy St. Anthony," she prayed. "Look down from heaven, Lend me your hands, You alone possess miracles ... "
That evening Betty found what looked like a diamond but turned out to be cubic zirconia, the Globe said.
Months went by until Aug. 28 when Bonnie saw Betty at work and inquired after her diamond.
"Oh, holy St. Anthony ... ''
That night as Betty was about to get into her car she saw something shiny.
It was her diamond.
"There must have been a car parked over it every evening," Betty Ann said. "Why it didn't go into a tire and travel who knows where. Why the rain didn't wash it away?"
BOSTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- A Cambridge, Mass., oncology nurse says her prayers to St. Anthony helped recover a diamond missing from her engagement ring for four months.
Betty Ann Burns-Britton received the one-carat diamond re-set in a gold band with a heart in it more than 30 years ago but discovered the rock missing May 3 when she started her shift 6 a.m. at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston Globe reported Sunday.
"I knew this was minor," Betty said, bursting into tears. "But my heart wasn't telling me that."
Bonnie Filicicchia, a nurse finishing up her night shift, hung around helping Betty look around the hospital for the missing diamond. Getting nowhere, Bonnie decided on divine intervention, the newspaper said.
"Oh holy St. Anthony," she prayed. "Look down from heaven, Lend me your hands, You alone possess miracles ... "
That evening Betty found what looked like a diamond but turned out to be cubic zirconia, the Globe said.
Months went by until Aug. 28 when Bonnie saw Betty at work and inquired after her diamond.
"Oh, holy St. Anthony ... ''
That night as Betty was about to get into her car she saw something shiny.
It was her diamond.
"There must have been a car parked over it every evening," Betty Ann said. "Why it didn't go into a tire and travel who knows where. Why the rain didn't wash it away?"