Healing of Louis Bouriette

Louis Bouriette was a quarryman in Lourdes. He had been blind in his right eye for two years from an accident that killed his brother. Dr. Dozous verified the cure and wrote: "Whenever an eye is injured by a flying object in an explosion, the shock is always sufficient to lead to incurable blindness."

Bouriette said: "When the chance came to use this water, I started to pray to Our Lady of the Grotto, and humbly begged her to be with me when I bathed my eye. The Bishop of Tarbes officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 18 January 1862.

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 Tarbes recognized it on 18 January 1862. Chronic conjunctivitis with ectropion was declared incurable. Prof. Vergez certified the supernatural character of the cure.