Within seconds of realizing what had happened, the 7-year-old girl’s father, an avowed atheist and best-selling author who once told Pope John Paul II that “God, if He exists at all, ought be shot” and called Jesus Christ “a third-rate carpenter with a first-rate lie” fell to his knees in full view of shellshocked doctors and nurses, professing a new and undying belief in both God and Christ.
To ice the cake, Jean-Philip DeMarcourt is now preaching the gospel to anybody who will listen and openly wonders why The Man Upstairs chose to save his daughter from certain death and him from eternal damnation.
“Why us? Why did He save us?” Delacourt asked me in an telephone interview from his office in Jerusalem. ”All my life I have done everything in my power to discredit even the idea of God.
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“I made a mockery of the Bible. I said God was dead. I said if God weren’t dead, then He should be. And yet, He sent His angel to lift my own daughter up from death and restore her to health, not through a medical procedure, not through the handiwork of a doctor or a nurse, but through His infallible power alone.
“I saw the miracle unfold with my own eyes. I saw the angel with my own eyes,” he continued. “God is real.”
Delacourt and his family hail from Paris but moved to Jerusalem last August while he conducted research on a book – since scrapped – that he had tentatively entitled: The REAL Father of Jesus Christ – Joseph the Philanderer.
Doctors diagnosed little Catherine Delacourt as having inoperable brain cancer in September after she suffered several blackouts at school.
On November 12, they informed Delacourt the child had just days to live. Sitting by his daughter’s bed, with privacy curtains drawn around them, Delacourt witnessed the miracle that altered his life, and his daughter’s life, forever.
