The miracle concerns the healing of Sorino Yanomami, who was attacked and seriously injured by a jaguar, in the Brazilian Amazon forest, on 7 February 1996. Sorino recovered his health completely thanks to the intercession of Blessed Joseph Allamano. DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT Sorino Yanomami belongs to the Yanomami indigenous ethnic group, born in the community of Maimasik (Roraima-Brazil), presumably in 1955 (day and month are not recorded). Resident in the community of Yaropi (in the region of the middle course of the Catrimani river), he is married to Helena Yanomami, but have no children. The environment in which his community is located is the immense Amazon forest, from which, like the other members of his people, he can obtain what is essential for living, through gathering, hunting, fishing and cultivating large vegetable gardens. His maloca (indigenous home, in the Tupi language, term that has entered the Brazilian Portuguese vocabulary) is, even now, situated near the “Consolata missionary community”, present there since 1965 and made up of religious men (fathers and coadjutor brothers) and missionaries sisters. The superior at the time, Guglielmo Damioli, remembers Sorino as follows: «Over the years, already married, with his family group, Sorino had come to build his maloca at the beginning of the mission’s landing strip. He appeared frequently at the mission, always accompanied by his young wife. Common, simple man, with a permanent smile on his face. Good hunter, in the forest, on the fragile canoe, hard worker on the plantation to contribute to the group and support his family.” Right in the heart of the forest, that morning of February 7, 1996, Sorino Yanomami was attacked by a female jaguar (onça pintada in Portuguese). Gugliemo Damioli also says this: «The jaguar, as it usually does, attacked Sorino by surprise, from behind. With a paw, he fractured his skull. On the spot, on the ground, pieces of bone and part of the brain mass were found by the natives. Despite the extreme severity of his wounds, Sorino did not lose consciousness; he managed to free himself, get up and use his bow like a spear to keep the jaguar at a distance, while he screamed for help. In a matter of minutes the jaguar fled, scarred by the shouts and the arrival of the natives armed with bows and arrows.” Sorino’s brother-in-law, B. (we are not reporting his name, out of respect for Yanomami customs which no longer pronounce the name of a person who is dead), run to the small mission dispensary to seek help, and the nurse in-charge, Sister Felicita Muthoni, a Kenyan Consolata missionary, rushed to the scene of the accident to assess the situation and provide first aid. Thus, the sister remembers those first moments: «I saw Sorino on the ground, in a bloodbath, I remained petrified, frozen and trembling, not knowing what to do. I called his mother and asked for water; then I realized that the scalp was protruding and that Sorino was also bleeding a lot; there was a lot of sand, dirt and part of the brain had spilled out. I pushed the brain in and then took the scalp and put it back, but it kept bleeding; he was alive, but did not speak. Since I hadn’t brought anything with me, I took the only thing I had, the t-shirt I was wearing: I took it off and wrapped it around Sorino’s head, to compress and somewhat stop the bleeding. I then sent someone to look for the Toyota car in service of our mission. With Dona Creuza, our helper, we put him in a hammock and then placed him in the Toyota that had arrived in the meantime with Brother Antonio Costardi who was also in the mission. I sat with him in the back, holding his head and we headed to the small mission dispensary.” Sister Felicita reports again: «I looked at his hands, but the veins were no longer visible. I had some blood plasma and I inserted the needle in one foot, and a glucose drip with a strong analgesic on the other foot.” Given the extremely dangerous situation, Sister Felicita asked that Sorino be transported to the hospital in Boa Vista, the capital of the state of Roraima. She managed to contact the CCPY (Pro Yanomami Commission) and a place was reserved for them on the small plane that serves the vast indigenous area, although she had to wait some time due to the many requests for help. Meanwhile Sorino’s companions were opposing the suggestion to transfer the patient to Boa Vista. As is frequent in the rhetoric that accompanies situations of tension and concern, they also went so far as to utter threats; for them, in fact, it is inconceivable that a Yanomami would die outside his village, without being accompanied by relatives and a shaman. Sorino’s spirit was ready to make its journey. They shouted: «No! Sorino will stay here! The shaman has already said that when the sun sets, he will enter the house of the spirits and ascend on high.” In the end, they gave in to Sister Felicita’s request, but with a terrible threat: if their companion were to die in the city, far from the forest and among “the whites”, they would kill, with their arrows, the missionaries present at Catrimani. While waiting for the plane to arrive, a boy brought a rolled up banana leaf, containing a fragment of bone from Sorino’s head, found at the site of the accident, and he formulated his “diagnosis”: «We saw clearly when Sorino arrived. We saw the brain, we saw the bone, we took it out and rolled it up and then we talked to the xapuri, the spirits of the forest: Sorino cannot live, because the brain has come out!». Around 2.00 pm, with the arrival of the plane, Sorino is boarded, accompanied by the tuxaua (village elder) C. After about an hour’s flight, at Boa Vista airport, he is welcomed by Sister Rosa