Miracles at Lourdes
D
id you know that there are 70 healings from
Lourdes authenticated as “medically inexplicable”
by the International Medical Committee of Lourdes
(C.M.I.L.), the latest being affirmed on February
11, 2018?
The official site of the Shrine (https://www.lourdesfrance.org)
puts in place three stages in recognizing a miracle:
Stage 1: From the “Declared” Cure to the
“Unexpected” Cure
All possible information is
gathered from the person
who believes they have
received the grace of
a cure by the
medical officer of the Medical Bureau
who then proceeds with a primary
evaluation to:
– to build up a file on the illness
with a report on the current
state of health to judge the
person’s personality in order to
rule out trickery, acting, illusion,
a possible hysterical or delirious
pathology.
D id you
know?
– to judge if this cure is clearly beyond
the normal medical provisions of the
illness in question note the circumstances
of the cure itself and to verify if it happened
according to extraordinary, unforeseen, striking
or remarkable conditions.