When I married my husband Antonio we lived in Glasgow for a few years and then moved down the coast to Ayrshire where I opened my own Boutique, I have always been interested in fashion and one day went out shopping for clothes and could not find anything suitable, by the time I got home I had decided to open my own fashion shop.

I had my fashion business for twelve years and over this time I had ample opportunity to use my healing ability. While woman were trying on clothes our conversation would sometimes turn to their health problems. I would then have a decision to make, should I tell them of my ability and offer them healing and risk having them leave hurriedly never to be seen again. I am happy to say that this never happened. As most were happy to receive healing, and I was joyous when they returned to tell me how well they were feeling. My one stipulation at that time was to tell them to keep it secret. But of course few did as they were so happy to have experienced healing. As my assistant once remarked, “Catherine, what ever it is that you have you need to get rid of it as we are trying to sell clothes here!” Having a fashion shop was quite a stressful business as one had to order clothes six months in advance.

One early spring I made my way to Glasgow to keep my appointment with John Gardener who was a Fashion Agent to do my ordering for my Winter Stock. It was a very busy time and there were many buyers in the Agency that day. If you can picture the scene it was a large, spacious area and around the room in strategic places were placed racks of clothes for us buyers to view, a few models were standing around waiting for us to ask them to try on some garments. The whole process could take around three hours and although it was exciting to view the collections it was very tiring. After I finished my ordering John invited me, as was the custom, to sit with him for a cup of coffee before my long drive home. Just as we were about to sit down, John suddenly cried out in obvious pain holding his back and apologising, asked to be excused as he was in agony. In the twelve years that I had known him I had never mentioned to him about my gift of healing, as we discussed later it was very strange when John didn’t question me when I said to him, “come with me and I will heal you,” I held out my hand to John and asked him where we could go for privacy and he led me to his office. I asked him to sit down and I explained to him that I would place my hands on his head for ten minutes or so and then place them on his back. I told him that I always pray internally, and if he wanted to say a prayer to go ahead as I thought it would help, as God is after all the Healer.

John had suffered from back pain for forty years, he had piloted Spitfires in the war and had been shot down. He had to eject and landed awkwardly with his parachute in a tree. Getting out of that situation resulted in his back problems. Every Friday night for years his Doctor would call in and manipulate his back to try and ease the pain, but without success.

I left for the hour drive home saying my goodbye to John, and telling him that I hoped the healing would have helped. Half way home I began to feel less confident and thought about how I had said to John, “come with me and I will heal you.” What made me say that? I had never said that to anyone in my life, I started to feel very anxious and wished I had kept my mouth shut. On arriving home I was met by Antonio and when I told him what had happened, what I had said and done he retorted “who do you think you are, The Lord Jesus Christ!” which was absolutely no help at all. That night I hardly slept. I went over and over in my mind the events of the day trying to understand why I had said this to John.

At 8 am after a restless night the telephone rang. It was John. “Catherine,” he exclaimed, “I don’t know what you did to me yesterday but I had the best pain free night of my life!” I have had back pain for 40 years and now it has gone. To say I was relieved to hear this was an understatement.

This wonderful healing gave me the courage from then on to speak out about my gift, and not to keep it a secret as I usually did. I made up my mind then not to be so afraid of telling people about my gift.