Miraculous Healings

Healing of Marie Lebranchu (Mrs Wu Plier)

Lourdes, France · 20th Century

Vatican ApprovedHealingLourdesMedical BureauC.M.I.L.
Healing of Marie Lebranchu (Mrs Wu Plier)
Healing of Marie Lebranchu (Mrs Wu Plier)Lourdes, France

What Was Truly Miraculous

Marie Lebranchu was a sick pilgrim in the Paris section of the National Pilgrimage. She was cured on 20 August 1892, the day before Marie Lemarchand. Both were among the five cures declared miraculous by Mgr Amette, Archbishop of Paris, in 1908—all "unwilling heroines of E. Zola's novel" about Lourdes.

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. Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death before antibiotics. Rapid, complete cure without drugs is medically unexplained.