Healing of Sister Josephine-Marie (Anne Jourdain)

Born into a family where tuberculosis had killed two sisters and one brother, she was moribund by July 1890. Under obedience she agreed to go on pilgrimage against her doctor's advice. The journey was plagued with haemoptyses. She arrived 20 August and was plunged into the Baths. The next day, after a second or third immersion, she felt infinitely better and announced her cure. Her doctor, who had opposed the pilgrimage, saw her on the 28th and issued a certificate that the disease had completely disappeared. The Bishop of Beauvais officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 10 October 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 Beauvais recognized it on 10 October 1908. Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death before antibiotics. Rapid, complete cure without drugs is medically unexplained.