Miraculous Healings

Healing of Clementine Trouvé (Sister Agnes-Marie)

Lourdes, France · 20th Century

Vatican ApprovedHealingLourdesMedical BureauC.M.I.L.
Healing of Clementine Trouvé (Sister Agnes-Marie)
Healing of Clementine Trouvé (Sister Agnes-Marie)Lourdes, France

What Was Truly Miraculous

On the same day as Amélie Chagnon, another cure occurred. Clementine had tuberculous osteoperiostitis of the right calcaneum. Her doctor held that her illness warranted a radical operation. The same doctor saw her again after her cure in the Piscines on 21 August; the Medical Bureau examined her the same day. Both certified that she bore only the scarred mark of her former illness, now cured. She appeared in Zola's novel about Lourdes as Sophie Couteau. She became a Little Sister of the Assumption. The Bishop of Paris officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 6 June 1908.

Why It Can't Be Dismissed

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 Paris recognized it on 6 June 1908. Chronic fistulas typically require surgery. Complete spontaneous closure of multiple fistulae is medically unusual.