Saved by the Rosary

[Shin]

by Bob Holt, New Jersey News Room Excerpts

A New York City man plunged 39 stories Tuesday from a West Side high-rise, crashed through the windshield of a sports car — and lived to tell the story.

Witnesses and police say 22-year-old Thomas Magill suffered just a broken leg, a shattered ankle and a collapsed lung after his 10:44 a.m. leap from atop the West End Towers on West End Avenue at 63rd Street. He landed in the backseat area of a Dodge Charger after crashing through the windshield.

"I can't believe this. My car saved his life," said Guy McCormack, a worker at a nearby construction site who had borrowed the 2008 red Dodge Charger from his wife, according to the New York Post.

Magill was in critical condition Tuesday night, but those who saw him fall were stunned he made it to the hospital.

McCormack, 40, of Old Bridge, N.J., told the New York Daily News he's convinced that rosary beads he kept inside the Dodge saved Magill's life.

"He came down feet first at like 100 mph," said witness Andrew Petrocelli, 47, a maintenance worker across the street from where Magill jumped.

Magill, whose family lives on Staten Island, was once listed as a resident of the Manhattan building, West End Towers at 75 West End Ave.

"I hate my life," says his Facebook page. Under the category "bio," he posted, "I'm over it," and he listed "being mean" and "making fun of people" as interests.

An aspiring Broadway actor, the New York Post reports Magill was a singer who, friends said, had recently starred in an off-off-Broadway performance of "Into the Woods."

[Shin]

I can well believe this man's life was saved for the sake of his soul's salvation. Let's pray for him!

Acting is a profession that sends more people to Hell than Heaven! He's in a situation where he needs much prayer!

Now we have him, the miners, and our little family's intentions here, as well as more to pray for!

All to God! All to God, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Ave Maria! Ave Maria! Ave Maria!

May the saints and ministers of grace defend us and aid us!

[martin]

Come O Most Glorious Virgin, Queen of heaven and earth,. Rescue all who are held bound in chains by the evil one.
Bring under thy maternity all poor banished children of Eve who have been ransomed by the blood of Him thou brought forth from thy Blessed Womb, the Eternal Word of God made flesh.

Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising,
fair as the moon, resplendent as the sun.
terrible as an army set in battle array.
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.