The miracle of the 10 per cent

I refer to the piece (May 24) about Dun Gorg Preca's miracle of the undertaker's glove - which proved that you don't have to be a donkey to fall down a well.

Anil Dhawan, a professor of paediatric hepatology at King's College Hospital, was reported as saying: "There was no scientific explanation for the boy's recovery (and) there was a 90 per cent plus chance that (the child) wasn't going to survive without a liver transplant. But he survived."

To which Catholic saint's intervention were the rest of the plus or minus 10 per cent who survived without a liver transplant attributed?

How did a hygienic disposable glove that had been down a grave find its way into the intensive care ward of such a renowned hospital as King's College in London? Someone told me you can buy relics of cotton dipped in Dun Gorg's blood which was reportedly saved at the time of his death four decades ago. Will Maltese hospitals allow cotton dipped in Dun Gorg's blood into their wards so it can be placed next to ill patients?

To the saying that Malta is "more Catholic than the Pope", we can now add "more gruesome than Frankenstein".

Applying the "plus or minus 10 per cent" as a benchmark over the next few years, if MUSEUM folk fill the wards of sick Maltese all over the world with cotton dipped in Dun Gorg's blood and other relics, there is a reasonable mathematical probability that their founder will usher back an age of miracles eclipsing that of biblical times.