my nan (god love her ) was irish catholic , prayed every night went to church regularly, she then got lung cancer , that woman prayed and prayed not to let it kill her, she kept telling me that miricles do happen and if she kept asking him her miricle would happen, sadly it all fell on deaf ears she died a few moths after, the only good thing was it gave her hope and a bit of comfort while she was ill but right to the last she honeslty thought he would help her, when she used to pray i wanted to shout at her that if god was so loving and careing he would let things like this happen, she was a