Lily Walker, 16, is not fighting her battle with brain cancer alone.

She’s praying to God and the late Father Bill Atkinson, a former Monsignor Bonner High School teacher and paraplegic who is up for sainthood in the Catholic church, for a miracle, reports Ashley Johnson for 6ABC.

Father Atkinson, a friend of Lily’s grandfather, died in 2006.

“He accepted his cross so faithfully. I want to do the same thing,” Lily said.

She’s hoping her prayers will lead to Father Atkinson being canonized as a saint. A miracle is one of the requirements in the canonization process.

“That’s my purpose through this fight is to show that prayer does work,” she said.

She has prayed for two years, through multiple surgeries, chemotherapy, and proton therapy.

A global movement – A Lily for the World – is behind her efforts.

Last March, the Havertown community lit up houses and businesses in green to show its support for Lily.

“Unfortunately, the tumor is in a location of her brain that makes it inoperable, so what we need is for the tumor to be killed off by making it go dormant, or just by having it miraculously disappear,” said Lily’s mother, Megan Walker.

Lily is praying to be cured by next summer.

“I’ve been told I’m an inspiration a couple of times. It makes me feel really good,” Lily said.

Read more about Lily’s prayer devotion at 6ABC.