Healing of Sister Sainte-Beatrix (Rosalie Vildier)

From 1894 the health of Sister Sainte-Beatrix was drastically altered by laryngo-bronchitis with gross emaciation. From 1896 until her pilgrimage in August 1904, the signs became more grave—weakness, loss of weight, cough with blood and pus. On the morning her pilgrimage arrived in Lourdes, she felt a change after visiting the Baths. Examined two days later at the M.B.V., nothing abnormal was found in her larynx or chest. The next year she obtained another cure in the Baths—of visual disturbances that had afflicted her for 15 years. The Bishop of Evreux officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 25 March 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 Evreux recognized it on 25 March 1908. Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death before antibiotics. Rapid, complete cure without drugs is medically unexplained.