Healing of Amélie Chagnon

The first of a long series of "bone disease" cures. At 13, tuberculous arthritis started in her left knee, followed by a similar lesion in her left foot. Treatment by two doctors proved ineffective. She told one doctor of her intention to go to Lourdes; he agreed to postpone surgery until the end of August. On 30 August and 5 September 1891, the same doctors certified that the disease had been cured without sequelae. The Bishop of Tournai recognised the miraculous character in 1910.

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 Tournai recognized it on 8 September 1910. Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death before antibiotics. Rapid, complete cure without drugs is medically unexplained.