Recently the Postulator of the Cause, taking into account the desire of many of the faithful who looked forward to the canonization of Blessed Arnold, submitted for judgement to this Congregation for the Causes of Saints a presumed miracle which took place in Baguio City, Philippines. The case concerns a fourteen year old girl, Pamela Avellanosa, who at about 2:00 p.m. of January 2, 1995, fell from her bicycle, suffering a grave cranial-encephalic trauma. Admitted to hospital several hours later after losing consciousness, she was diagnosed as being in a profound coma, with pupilar mydriasis and respiratory arrest after a period of grave respiratory difficulty. In the intensive care unit she was intubated and placed on assisted respiration. Initially, the doctors, seeing the profound state of the coma and the gravity of the situation, concluded that a surgical procedure would be useless; but, then, at about 7:30 p.m. of that same day, without the necessary physical tests, they went ahead and performed a craniotomy on the right side revealing a very large epidural hematoma which was removed. The doctors feared for the girl's life and, in the event that she survived, they predicted very grave aftereffects from the injury and even a vegetative state.

Meanwhile, from about 6:00 p.m. onwards the grandmother of Pamela and the Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration had begun to invoke the intercession of Blessed Arnold to obtain from God the girl's healing. And in fact, she rapidly began to improve until she had reached complete recovery. In 1999 the Apostolic Vicariate of Baguio opened up a diocesan investigation into the presumed miracle, an investigation which was recognized as juridically valid by this Dicastery with the Decree of April 7, 2000. The Medical Commission, in its meeting of April 18, 2002, admitted that the cure was rapid, lasting and scientifically unexplainable. On October 8, 2002, there was a special Session of the Consulting Theologians. On November 19, 2002 there was the ordinary Session of the Curial Fathers, Cardinals and Bishops, in the presence of the Relator of the Cause, Most Rev. Giuseppe Coppa, Titular Archbishop of Serta. In both Sessions, that of the Consulting Theologians as well as that of the Cardinals and Bishops, to the question as to whether in this case one could speak of a genuine and authentic miracle, the response was affirmative.