Virgin Mary Heals Woman at Lourdes

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Miracle Healing by Our Lady of Lourdes

Among the thousands of cures that have been attributed to the miraculous spring in Lourdes, France, seventy of those cures have passed rigorous scientific scrutiny and are recognized by the Church and the medical community.

The story behind these miracles begins with the Blessed Virgin Mary and a poor young girl…

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Now, on to our story! On February 11, 1858 in the Pyrenean village of Lourdes, France, a beautiful young lady appeared to a poor, fourteen-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous. (Sue-ba-roo)

Bernadette and her sister were searching for firewood near the Grotto of Massabielle. Bernadette was often ill, so when her sister removed her stockings in order to wade across the river, Bernadette remained where she was. Soon, a strange silence filled the air.

She turned her head towards the grotto and saw in the opening of the rock a young and beautiful lady. “The Lady” had a rosary draped over her arm. Removing her own rosary from her pocket, Bernadette knelt down and began to pray.

This was the first of eighteen apparitions of the Blessed Mother to the young girl. During the sixteenth apparition on March 25, Our Lady identified herself as “the Immaculate Conception.”

So Bernadette ran to her pastor’s house, repeating to herself over and over again the strange name that “the Lady” had given her so as not to forget it. At that time, the “Immaculate Conception” was not a well-known term, because just four years earlier, Blessed Pope Pius IX had proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.

The notion of the Immaculate Conception was absolutely unknown to the young and illiterate Bernadette, the name that “the Lady” had given her was, to her dumbfounded pastor, more confirmation than he had ever expected.

Complying with Our Lady’s request, there is now a church at the grotto. Our Lady asked that people come in procession, and persevere with prayer and personal conversion.

During the ninth apparition, Our Lady asked Bernadette to kneel and wash in the spring. Confused, because there was no spring near Massabielle, she began to scratch the loose gravel off the ground inside the grotto. As she did so, a small pool formed, and she cupped her hands together and drank, and then washed her face.

The next day, the pool was overflowing and water was dripping down over the rock. Countless cures, are attributed to this spring. And the shrine is considered the most visited place of pilgrimage and healing in the world—both physical and spiritual healing.

The Lourdes sanctuary website says that one of these pilgrims, Catherine Latapie, experienced the very first recognized scientific and Church approved miracle at Lourdes. And here is her story.

Catherine lived very close to Lourdes, only a few miles away. One day in October of 1856, she fell from a tree and damaged her right hand so critically that she suffered complete paralysis in two of her fingers.

In February 1858, Catherine woke up in the middle of the night with a feeling that she was being called to go to the Grotto of Lourdes to heal her hand. Now, this was at the time when the apparitions of Our Lady to Bernadette were still happening.

So, the next month, Catherine traveled to Lourdes with her children. At dawn, she met Bernadette right before the twelfth apparition and then went to the Grotto to pray. Then, she washed her hands in the spring’s water. In an instant, her hand was healed and the paralysis of her fingers gone.

Nearly four years later, Catherine Latapie’s healing was officially recognized as a miracle. There are so many more stories I could tell you about miracles and cures at Lourdes, but I’m running out of time for today.

I just want to leave you with one thought. While Lourdes is associated with physical healing, Saint Bernadette herself underwent a lot of suffering and illness in her life. She teaches us that suffering is beautiful and can actually help us get to heaven. In her words, we must suffer because “pure Love cannot exist without suffering.

Miracle Healing by Our Lady of Lourdes

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