Healing of Esther Brachmann

Esther, 15, had tuberculosis for two years when she joined the National Pilgrimage from the Hospice of Villepinte, a home for people dying of T.B. On the morning of 21 August, after leaving the train, she was taken to the Grotto and then the Baths. When she came out, she was sure she had been cured. Her pain had ceased, the swelling of her abdomen had subsided. She could walk and was hungry. Two days later the Medical Bureau confirmed her cure. The Bishop of Paris officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 6 June 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 Paris recognized it on 6 June 1908. Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death before antibiotics. Rapid, complete cure without drugs is medically unexplained.