• 9780824520205
Eileen McAvoy Boylen (Author) Arthur P. Boyle (Author)

Six Months to Live . . .

Three Guys on the Ultimate Quest for a Miracle

First it was Judy, Artie’s wife, who went all out to support him through praying and recruiting hundreds of others to join her. Artie had never put much stock in mysticism or miracles. But when…

After learning he had advanced lung and kidney cancer, Artie Boyle traveled to Bosnia and Herzegovina to the pilgrimage site Medjugorje with [Rob] Griffin and his brother-in-law, Kevin Gill. Since 1981, millions have flocked there…
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  • Title: Six Months to Live . . .
  • Subtitle: Three Guys on the Ultimate Quest for a Miracle
  • Page Count: 192
  • Available Formats: Trade-paper (9780824520205), Epub (9780824520533), Mobipocket (9780824520540), Cd (9780824521608), Mp3 (9780824523060)
  • Edition: Trade Paper
  • Original language: English
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Eileen McAvoy Boylen (Author)

Eileen McAvoy Boylen is a freelance writer and regular contributor to The Boston Globe, her satirical essays on business and her political Op-Ed’s have appeared in both The Globe and The Boston Herald. She has a BS in Education from Bridgewater State College and holds a MBA from the Boston University School of Management, and a MS in Communications from Boston University’s School of Public Communication. She also has a successful communications consulting business writing web copy, marketing materials and e-newsletters for companies in the Boston Area. Eileen recently traveled to Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to conduct research for Six Months To Live, retracing the steps of Artie Boyle and his two friends. She married her husband, George, in 2005. They live in Hull, Massachusetts, with their “first born,” Baldwin, a yellow lab named after the Boston College mascot, because she picked him up at a football game, (or so he tells the story.)

Arthur P. Boyle (Author)

Arthur P. Boyle has traveled the world speaking to thousands of people in North and South America and Europe since his miraculous healing from cancer in Medjugorje in 2000. He and his wife Judy have 13 children, including professional hockey player Brian Boyle of the New York Rangers. He lives in Hingham, Massachusetts. Eileen McAvoy Boylen is a freelance writer and regular contributor to the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. She also runs a successful communications consulting business writing web copy, marketing materials and e-newsletters for companies in the Boston Area. She lives in Hull, Massachusetts.

  1. I’m in Medjugorje with a group of Americans, mostly hockey dads from the Boston area, plus two men and two women with stage 4 cancer. We’re led by 59-year-old Arthur Boyle, a father of 13, who first came here on Labor Day weekend in 2000, riddled with cancer and given months to live. He felt broken and dejected and wouldn’t have made the trip had not two friends forced him into it. But that first night, after he went to confession at St. James the Apostle church, psychological relief came rapidly. “The anxiety and depression were gone,” he told me. “You know when you’re carrying someone on your shoulders in a swimming pool water fight—they come off, and you feel light and free? I was like, Wait a minute, what just happened to me? Why is that?” The next morning, with his friends Rob and Kevin, he met another of the “visionaries,” Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic, in a jewelry shop and asked for her help. Gripping his head with one hand, she appealed to the Virgin Mary to ask God to cure him. Boyle said he experienced an unusual sensation right there in the store. “She starts to pray over me. Rob and Kevin put their hands on me, and the heat that went through my body from her praying was causing them to sweat.” Back in Boston a week later, a CT scan at Massachusetts General Hospital revealed that his tumors had shrunk to almost nothing. Since then, Boyle has been back to Medjugorje 13 times. “I’m a regular guy,” he said. “I like to play hockey and drink beer. I play golf.” But, he continued, “I had to change things in my life.” Today, Boyle said, he’s become “a sort of mouthpiece for Jesus Christ’s healing power and of course the Mother and the power of her intercession.”
    --The National Geographic Magazine
  2. "To most folks, it was Tiger Woods who made 2000 the year of the miracle in the golf world. I beg to differ. I know a low-handicap, tournament golfer named Artie Boyle, who is part of something that seems bigger than any of Woods' major victories and link heroics. Deep in Boyle's heart and soul, he knows he is the beneficiary of an actual miracle ..."
    --Boston Herald

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