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His mother and the priest... 

encouraged him to take painkillers to ease the pain...

but the child said, 'I want to wait a little longer before I take medicine, because Jesus needs my suffering to save souls.'

Towards the end of Manuel’s life...

in the early summer of 2010, he suffered excruciating [ondragelijke] headaches. After a test, the doctors found two tumor masses in his head, but his mother decided not to inform Manuel. 

Fr. Ignacio recalls, 'One day, after receiving Communion, he broke down in tears, and confided to his mother, and later to me, what Jesus had said to him. We had asked him what was wrong, since he was crying, and he told us that Jesus had given him a special gift, and that he was crying because he was happy. 

Jesus gave him two thorns from His crown, and he had them in his head. I was dumbfounded by his words, because it was humanly inexplicable. The two things perfectly coincided: two tumor masses and two thorns from the crown of Jesus—as a gift—in his head.'

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