Healing of Virginie Haudebourg

Virginie had tuberculous urinary infection—incurable and fatal in those days. In May 1906 she made her first pilgrimage—no change. In 1908 she joined again. On the third day, during the blessing with the Blessed Sacrament, she felt another violent pain, the prelude to her cure. After a peaceful night she went to the M.B.V.; urine tests were normal. Fifty years later she presented herself again at the Medical Bureau. Mgr Mallet concluded: this cure "outside the general order of nature" must be considered miraculous.

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 Saint-Claude recognized it on 25 November 1912. Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death before antibiotics. Rapid, complete cure without drugs is medically unexplained.