Healing of Sister Eugenia (Marie Mabille)

An outstanding cure with a perfectly established clinical account. In 1877 she developed an abscess; by 1880 Prof. Pean in Paris said surgery was inappropriate for "longstanding chronic infection with vesical and colonic fistulae." At death's door, she departed for Lourdes in August 1883. On arrival she was taken to the Grotto, received Holy Communion, and sensed relief. In the afternoon at the Baths she felt cured. She came out on her own; all signs of illness vanished. She could walk and took food. The Bishop of Evreux officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 30 August 1908.

The Lourdes Medical Bureau gathered documentation; the International Medical Committee (C.M.I.L.) affirmed the cure was inexplicable in the current state of medical knowledge. The Bishop of Evreux recognized it on 30 August 1908. Chronic fistulas typically require surgery. Complete spontaneous closure of multiple fistulae is medically unusual.