On the novena's final day, January 18, 1943, Rizzo declared that she woke up with no pain and the abdominal lump causing it had vanished. This experience profoundly touched her; she believed that God had performed a miracle and she traced her lifelong commitment to God to this event. She later told an interviewer "that point I knew that God knew me and loved me and was interested in me. All I wanted to do after my healing was give myself to Jesus."