This Section lists ... natural order graces, in the form of miracles ... to confirm
the Catholic Faith ... for the supernatural goal of saving souls.

The way to bring one's soul to the justified state is on
Section 2.1 to have a chance of getting to Heaven.

Twenty (20) Listed

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1.  Mrs Catherine Latapie ... the first Miracle of Lourdes ... regains use of two fingers

Miracle on ... 1 March 1858, by Mgr Laurence, Bishop of Tarbes

She had injured her right hand after a fall from a tree, in October 1856

She could not use the last two fingers of her right hand

During the night between the 28th. February and the 1st. March, 1858, Catherine Latapie was moved by a sudden impulse. She rose at three in the morning, woke her young children and set off for Lourdes.

Arriving there at dawn, she met Bernadette, went to the Grotto and knelt down to pray. Then with all simplicity, she bathed her hand in the little hollow which had already collected water from the Spring.

Straightaway her fingers returned to normal. They had regained their movements and suppleness.

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In his report for Mgr Laurence, Prof. Vergez classed this case amongst the cures "presenting a supernatural character".

A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Miracle in ... March 1858 This cure is the one most often quoted in the history of Lourdes. Although usually considered the first, in actual fact there is evidence that it could not have happened before the first days of March.

In 1858 he had been afflicted with a complete loss of vision in the right eye for two years ... in a mine accident.

The Commission of enquiry, set up by Mgr Laurence, heard Dr. Dozous ... speak about this cure on 28 July 1858.

"As soon as Bernadette had scratched the soil of the Grotto leading to the appearance of the Spring which had cured so many sick people, I wanted, he told me, to try and see if this water would cure my eye.

"I bathed and rebathed my right eye repeatedly in the space of a short time, and after these ablutions my sight was excellent, just as it is now."

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In April 1860, Dr. Henri Vergez, Professor attached to the Faculty at Montpellier, and Medical Officer at the Waters of Bareges, presented his preliminary report as requested by Mgr Laurence. He declared as his opinion:

"This event (the cure) possesses a supernatural character".
The verdict was solemnised in the Mandate of Mgr Laurence in January 1862.

A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Lived in Lourdes. Cured in March 1858.

She had serious trouble with her eyes for many years. This 50 year old Lourdes' woman suffered from a chronic infection of the conjonctivae and eyelids, with bilateral ectropion... for which medicines up to then were of little help.

Declared incurable, she decided to use the water from the Grotto as a lotion.

After the second application, she was completely cured.

The eyelids returned to normal, the fleshy overgrowths disappeared, the pain and inflammation vanished.

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Prof. Vergez was able to write about it thus: "The supernatural effect was as much evident in this wonderful cure as the physical lesion-nowadays we would say the organic disease of the eyelids--striking as that was, with the complete return to a normal healthy state by a rapid regrowth of the tissues".

A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Lived in Nay (Atlantic Pyrenees) Cured towards the end of April 1858, in his 16th year.

This young adolescent had been ill for 15 months.

It all began with a fever, considered at that time as typhoid, but now and in all likelihood, perceived as the first sign of tuberculosis. This was followed by an abscess in the neck, really a purulent adenitis, which spread, in the absence of treatment, to the right side of his chest.

At this stage, Henri asked to go to Lourdes, but his parents refused. Nevertheless they begged a neighbour to bring him some water from the Grotto.

In the evening of 28 April 1858, while the whole family prayed together, the young man applied a dressing, soaked in water from the Grotto, to his neck.

After a peaceful night, the ulcer had scarred over, the infection had subsided, the other lymph glands had disappeared. No relapse occurred in this sudden and complete cure.

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This is why Prof. Vergez certified without hesitation: "This cure is beyond the laws of nature". The Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria grants this miraculous healing."

Cured at the beginning of July 1858 at the age of 2 years.

Without any doubt whatever, this young boy had been ill frequently since birth. As a result by the age of 2 years, he showed a great failure to thrive, had never walked, was considered a hopeless case.

In fact, for quite a long time, he was looked upon as having a "miserable constitution"... as being a puny and disabled little boy.

At that time he was dying from "consumption" of which his parents were the first to be aware.

One day, his mother, while watching Justin languish because nothing useful could be done for him, in desperation made up her mind to take him to the Grotto in the late afternoon, to implore help from the Blessed Virgin.

On arrival, with the child in her arms and surrounded by a crowd of curious onlookers, she prayed for a few moments in front of the Rock. Then she decided to bathe the moribund child in the hollow recently dug by labourers.

After a while, which inevitably seemed terribly long, she lifted the child out and returned home, carrying her son. When she arrived, Justin was still breathing feebly, but slept peacefully.

While those present feared the worst, his mother alone was more than ever convinced that the Virgin would cure him !

In the days which followed with no further sign of a threat to his life. Justin very quickly recovered, and walked !

Back to normal, he grew up and reached adulthood ... before dying in 1935.

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Concerning this cure, doctors Dozous, Vergez, and also Dr. Peyrus, who had treated him, could see nothing else than the almighty power of the Catholic God.

Madeleine Rizan could not get about for more than 20 years, being confined to bed due to a leftsided paralysis, following an "attack of cholera" 26 years before, in 1832.

At the beginning she had difficulty moving around the home. Then she gradually became bed-ridden, with painful bedsores and the whole range of trophic disturbances that it was possible to imagine.

Her pain was in marked contrast to her loss of sensibility. Her doctors had long since abandoned all hope of a cure and had ceased to treat her.

In September,1858, Mrs Rizan received Extreme Unction, and from that day she prayed for the "grace of a happy death".

A month later, on Saturday 16th. October, death seemed imminent. Next morning, when her daughter brought her some Lourdes' water, she drank a few sips, and applied some to her face and body.

Suddenly the illness vanished... her strength returned, her skin regained its normal appearance and her muscles became active. The woman dying yesterday evening, now felt she would live again.

Since that day, on which she could once again get up, dress and eat, she led a normal existence until she died in 1869,11 years later, never having a relapse.

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A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Lived in Tartas (Landes). Cured on 9 November 1858, when nearly 17 years old.

The first cure "far away from Lourdes".

At the beginning of 1858, when Marie was 16 years of age, she contracted an inflammatory disease of the eyes.

Despite the remedies tried, this condition led to a severe degree of visual impairment, bordering on blindness.

After her father heard of Mrs Rizan's cure, he decided to go to Lourdes to get some water from the Grotto.

On the 8th. November,1858, the family started a novena of prayers. In the evening, the young girl soaked a bandage with Lourdes' water, and tied it over her eyes.

The next morning, 9th. November, at the moment Marie removed the bandage, she was aware that her sight was fully restored.

She resumed her studies at Bordeaux, where she had had to abandon them 2 years previously.

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A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

In 1867, Pierre de Rudder had his leg crushed when a tree fell down. As a result he sustained an open fracture of both bones in the upper third of the left leg.

Despite all treatment given, it was obvious from an early stage that the fracture would never heal. Due to local infection, and (because of it) the elimination of newly formed bone over the years, a pseudoarthrosis set in at the site of the fracture, and there was not the slightest chance of the bones uniting.

In this state, eight years after the accident, Pierre de Rudder decided to make a pilgrimage to Oostacker on 4/7/1875, where a replica of the Grotto of Lourdes had recently been built for the piety of our Belgian neighbours.

Setting off from Jabbeke in the morning as an invalid, unable to stand on his left leg, he returned in the evening without crutches or wounds.

The bones had united in a matter of minutes, without any shortening or deviation from the vertical axis. During the following days, the doctors who had treated him, verified these changes.

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In July 1908, 33 years later (a sort of record!) the Bishop of Bruges declared that in the cure of Pierre de Rudder, one could see a miracle attributable to "an intervention by God, obtained through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary".

Lived in Gesves (Belgium). Cured 13 September 1878 when she was 29 years old.

Joachime arrived in Lourdes on the evening of 12 September 1878 ... with an oozing and gangrenous ulcer on her right leg.

This ulcer covered two thirds of the surface of the side of the leg, and what was even more serious was its depth, which led to a permanent contraction of the muscles, causing a club foot.

Owing to this affliction which no treatment could cure, her general state of health was very grave.

The next day, the 13th, she took baths during the morning, her leg wrapped in bandages.

After the second, there was no trace of the ulcer. The flesh and the tendons had virtually become normal again, and the skin was new and rose-coloured. And after another bath later on, her foot returned to its normal position.

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For thirty years her health remained excellent and was confirmed by another medical check. The Bishop of Namur accepted the verdict of the Commission which he had set up, and on the 25.4.1908, proclaimed that this miraculous cure must "be attributed to the powerful and efficacious intervention of Our Lady of Lourdes".

Cured on 29 August 1882 when she was 28 years old.

Miss Elisa Seisson of Rognonas fell ill in 1876, when she was 21 years old.

Dr. Pigeon had treated her for 6 years for "chronic bronchitis with severe organic heart disease". There had been no response to all treatment and her case was considered incurable, in fact hopeless.

Elisa Seisson came to Lourdes at the end of August 1882, and went into the Baths on the first day of her pilgrimage. She came out very much improved, having lost all the oedema of both legs.

After a good night's rest, she woke up feeling she was completely cured. Her doctor confirmed this impression on 18.9.1882. Elisa remained well for the next 30 years.

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The Medical Bureau of Verifications (M.B.V.) has evidence of her visit the day after her cure, on 30.8.1882, in a report written and signed by Fr. Burosse (Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, M.I.C.)

Later, on 18th September 1896, she was examined by doctors within the Medical Bureau of Verifications, founded in 1883.

A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Cured 21 August 1883 when she was 29 years old ... born Marie Mabille in 1855.

This is an outstanding cure because the clinical account of the former illness was perfectly established, due to its long duration and the number and competence of the doctors who looked after her.

In 1877, when 22 years of age, she developed an abscess, almost certainly from the appendix, which in those days could not be cured.

Two years later, evidence of peritonitis and bilateral phlebitis appeared. In 1880, she was seen by the famous Prof. Pean in Paris. His opinion was that surgery was quite inappropriate in this case of "longstanding chronic infection in the right iliac fossa, with vesical and colonic fistulae".

Between 1880 and 1883, all therapeutic measures were ineffective, and her general state of ill-health only made things worse.

Although at death's door, Sister Eugenia departed for Lourdes in August 1883.

Having left on the 17th. she reached there on the 21st., and on arrival was taken to the Grotto.

It was in the afternoon at the Baths that Sister felt cured. She came out on her own and from that moment all signs of her illness vanished. She could walk at the first attempt and took food. On returning to her Community, she resumed work... and followed the Rule, something she had not been able to do for 5 years.

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The doctors who had the opportunity to examine her (in particular Dr. Dunot de St Maclou who had founded the M.B.V. that year and followed her case after the cure) have written an extremely competent account, leaving nothing vague or equivocal.

A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

In the village of la Roque, near Sarlat ... cured on 1 September 1889 when she was 25 ... born Aline Bruyere in 1864.

This case, of cavitating pulmonary tuberculosis, is recognised as miraculous, with a wealth of detail.

The doctors, for their part, established that Sister JULIENNE: --had suffered from a grave and incurable pulmonary disease; --was cured in a completely sudden way in the Baths at Lourdes.

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These were the findings of a rigourous investigation undertaken by both Dr. Dunot de St. Maclou, and his colleague, Dr. Boissarie.

A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Cured on 21 August 1890 when she was 36 years old ... born Anne Jourdain on 5 August 1854, in Le Havre France.

Here is another cure of "tuberculosis with gross apical lesions" which occurred in a young woman, born into a family where this disease had caused the deaths of two sisters and one brother.

Sister Josephine Marie arrived on the 20th August, and straightaway was plunged into the Baths.

It was the next day, 21st August, after a second or possibly a third immersion that she felt infinitely better and could announce her cure.

The doctor who had opposed her departure for Lourdes (a 585 mile trip), saw her again on the 28th, after she had returned to her Community, and issued a certificate stating that the disease had completely disappeared.

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This cure was supported by the medical investigation at the M.B.V. in 1890, and confirmed by an X-ray 28 years afterwards.

It established that this cure "complete, lasting, instantaneous and obtained without any form of human help" must be considered as a miracle.

A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Sister was born in 1858.

Lived in Marseille (Convent of the Sisters of Hope). Cured on 20 May 1901 when she was 44 years old.

She was ill for 15 years and totally bedridden for 5 years, due to a hydatid cyst of the liver with phlebitis of the left leg, decided to come to Lourdes, knowing she was incurable.

She arrived there on 20 May 1901, and she too was taken forthwith to the Baths.

A few minutes later, she came out, walking... and cured !  The swellings of her abdomen and leg had vanished !

The next day, 21 May, Sister visited the M.B.V. where she recounted her long history. After the doctors had heard her story and examined her, they decided to request her own doctor to telegramme a medical certificate. This came a few hours later.

In it, Dr Rampal quoted the diagnosis and the incurable nature of her illness.

Eight days later, he wrote another report in which he stated:
"I am bound to say in all sincerity, that Sister Maximilien returned from Lourdes completely cured" on the 29 May 1901.

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A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Born in Azay le Boule France, in 1878.

Cured on 21 August 1891 when she was 14 years old.

On the very same day as the previous miracle (Amelie Chagnon), another cure occurred in a young girl... slightly younger than Amelie.

The disease was practically the same: tuberculous osteoperiostitis of the right calcaneum.

The doctor who wrote the certificate on her departure for Lourdes ... held the opinion that her illness warranted a radical operation ... or else, some other lengthy treatment.

The same doctor who saw Clementine again after her cure on the 21 August ... and the Medical Bureau of Verifications, having examined her on the same day, both certified: "that she only bore the scarred mark" of her former illness which "was now cured".

This is the girl who appeared in the book about Lourdes of the famous French writer E. Zola, under the name of Sophie Couteau.

Clementine he became a Little Sister of the Assumption ... taking the name of Sister Agnes Marie.

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A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Marie was born in 1877 and lived in Cateau-Cambresis.

She was cured on 20 September 1901, when she was 24 years old.

For four years she suffered from the consequences of rheumatic fever; that for 13 months she suffered especially from heart disease, with all the signs of a mitral lesion; that the illness, with an almost complete loss of appetite.

at Lourdes, during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, all these symptoms suddenly disappeared, as well as the bed-sore on her back, due to the long time she had lain in bed.

Her sudden cure was so complete that Marie gave to others ... for the next seven years the sort of help she herself had received during her long illness. She had no relapse.

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A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Born 15 February 1846 ... cured on 29 August 1892.

Sister Marie lived in Lille. She developed what the doctors called "chronic gastro-enteritis".

For twelve years this disease steadily became worse, to such an extent that those who cared for her could not prevent "a state of absolute starvation, which would undoubtedly end in death".

Sister Marie wanted to go to Lourdes. Her doctor, and the others looking after her, thought it useless to try to dissuade her.

While she was praying in the Rosary Basilica, she experienced for the last time "stomach pains far worse than she had ever felt before" and then, the unexpected, sudden and total cure happened.

For the 16 years following there had not been any relapse.

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A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Born in Poses France, on 15 March 1847.

Cured 31 August 1893 when he was 47 years old.

In January 1892, this priest in charge of a Parish in the Diocese Evreux, showed signs of a nervous disorder after influenza.

Complete loss of ability to do anything without aid, and inability to walk ... mental confusion ... difficulty with speech and memory, i.e. symptoms originating from the spinal cord and brain.

His morale was very low in the early part of 1893 due to ineffective treatment.

As there was no improvement in his health by August, he decided to go to Lourdes with people from the Diocese of Rouen. His own diocese was not going to Lourdes that year.

Father arrived on the 29th August, but he did not go to the Baths until the 31st (not wanting "to take up a place of another sick pilgrim who might obtain a cure" there).

At first, nothing particular happened. But later, after the mid-day meal, he felt an overwhelming desire to go to the Grotto.

He set off there, and quickly realised that he had no further use for his walking sticks. He was cured... in a complete, sudden and unexpected way.

Father CIRETTE was able to take up all his activities again, working as a priest in the Parish of Beaumontel.

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Fourteen years later, this cure was attributed by his Bishop, Mgr Meunier to "the intervention of a supernatural cause, which could be none other than the Almighty Power of God".

A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Born Rosalie Vildier in 1862.

Lived in Evreux, France ... cured on 31 August 1904 when 43 years old.

Starting in 1894, the health of Sister Saint Beatrix, aged 32 years ... was drastically altered by laryngeal-bronchitis, associated with gross emaciation.

From 1896 until her Pilgrimage to Lourdes at the end of August 1904, the signs became more obvious and grave. Her general weakness, loss of weight, cough with blood and pus in the sputum, and cachexia, were all clearly due to tuberculosis, according to the doctors who were looking after her.

On the morning her pilgrimage arrived in Lourdes, she felt quite a change comeover her after visiting the Baths.

Examined two days afterwards at the M.B.V., nothing at all abnormal was found, either in her larynx or chest.

The next year,1905, Sister returned to Lourdes to thank Our Lady. . . and furthermore, again in the Baths, she obtained another cure, this time of the visual disturbances which had afflicted her for 15 years !

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For all these reasons, and considering that this "sudden, complete and radical cure, could not be explained by any natural cause" ... this was judged a true miracle.

A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

Born on 8 September 1877, in Indre et Loire, France.

Cured on the 8 September 1897, at 20 years of age.

This young lady in late adolescence was already suffering from tuberculous peritonitis by the time she was 18 years old.

Six months later the disease had spread to her vertebral column.

Within a few more months the lesions were serious, having caused: destruction of 2 or 3 vertebrae, with marked curvature of the dorsolumbar spine; a bone abscess in the left thigh; muscular atrophy and clubfoot.

All these were certified by her doctor on 7 August 1897.

At the beginning of September, Jeanne, in a very poor state ... went to Lourdes.

On the 8 September, her twentieth birthday, she joined a Blessed Sacrament Procession (The Eucharist is not available in these times, see Section 13.6)

And then, all at once, she felt cured.

She was examined at the Medical Bureau of Verifications the next day, and again the next year, 1898, where doctors had no option but to confirm the cure from the prolonged illness of Pott's disease (spinal tuberculosis), as complete, sudden and lasting.

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A miraculous healing that was via grace originating with the Catholic God ... the grace then goes to the hands of the Catholic Blessed Virgin Maria and then into the world.

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