Kathryn Johanna Kuhlmun was born in Concordia, Missouri, to German-American parents. She was "born-again" at the age of 14 in the Methodist Church of Concordia, and began preaching in the West at the age of sixteen in primarily Baptist Churches.
Kuhlman traveled extensively around the United States and in many other countries holding "healing crusades" between the 1940s and 1970s. She had a weekly TV program in the 1960s and 1970s called I Believe In Miracles that was aired nationally.By 1970 she moved to Los Angeles conducting faith healing for thousands of people each day. She became well-known despite, as she told reporters, having no theological training.
In July 1975 her doctor diagnosed her with a minor heart flareup and she had a relapse in November while in Los Angeles.As a result, she had open heart surgery in Tulsa, Oklahoma from which she died in February 1976.She influenced faith healers Benny Hinn and Billy Burke. Hinn has adopted some of her techniques and wrote a book about her.
Many accounts of healings were published in her books, which were "ghost-written" by author Jamie Buckingham of Florida, including her autobiography, which was dictated at a hotel in Las Vegas. Buckingham also wrote his own Kuhlman biography that presented an unvarnished account of her life.
Kuhlman traveled extensively around the United States and in many other countries holding "healing crusades" between the 1940s and 1970s. She had a weekly TV program in the 1960s and 1970s called I Believe In Miracles that was aired nationally.By 1970 she moved to Los Angeles conducting faith healing for thousands of people each day. She became well-known despite, as she told reporters, having no theological training.
In July 1975 her doctor diagnosed her with a minor heart flareup and she had a relapse in November while in Los Angeles.As a result, she had open heart surgery in Tulsa, Oklahoma from which she died in February 1976.She influenced faith healers Benny Hinn and Billy Burke. Hinn has adopted some of her techniques and wrote a book about her.
Many accounts of healings were published in her books, which were "ghost-written" by author Jamie Buckingham of Florida, including her autobiography, which was dictated at a hotel in Las Vegas. Buckingham also wrote his own Kuhlman biography that presented an unvarnished account of her life.
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