Lourdes Has Its 66th Officially Recognized Miracle
Joyce Lang
Dec 28, 2002
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=29417
Code: ZE02122423
Date: 2002-12-24
Lourdes Has Its 66th Officially Recognized Miracle
PARIS, DEC. 24, 2002 (Zenit.org).- The latest officially recognized miracle
at Lourdes involves a Frenchman who was once paralyzed by multiple
sclerosis, a newspaper reported.
Le Monde dedicated an entire page to the scientifically inexplicable cure of
an illness that began affecting Jean-Pierre Bély in 1972. He was classified
by the French health system as a total invalid by the time he went on
pilgrimage to Lourdes in October 1987, at age 51.
Those who accompanied Bély did not think he would survive the trip. At the
end of the pilgrimage he received the anointing of the sick in the shrine's
esplanade. When he returned home, he was already able to walk. Today,
virtually all traces of the illness have disappeared.
Patrick Fontanaud, an agnostic physician who looked after Bély, said there
is no scientific explanation for what occurred. It was Lourdes' 66th
officially recognized miracle since the 1858 apparitions of the Blessed
Virgin.
The head of the Lourdes Medical Office, Dr. Patrick Theillier, told Le Monde
that there are two other miraculous cures about to be recognized: a
25-year-old Frenchwoman and a 60-year-old Italian woman, both cured in 1995.
See the "Cures and Miracles" section of
http://www.lourdes-france.com/bonjour.htm
Jento, Sharjah
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