Healing of Marie Savoye

A cure of a non-tuberculous illness—relatively uncommon. For four years she suffered from rheumatic fever; for 13 months from heart disease with all the signs of a mitral lesion. The illness led to such weakness that no one dared plunge her into the Baths. At Lourdes, during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, all symptoms suddenly disappeared, as well as the bedsore on her back. Mgr Delamaire judged: "this sudden cure is outside the ordinary scope of science, and could not have happened without the miraculous intervention of God."

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 Cambrai recognized it on 15 August 1908. Heart valve damage does not spontaneously reverse. The bishop judged the cure outside the ordinary scope of science.