Healing of Aimée Allope

Miss Allope had a kidney removed in 1898; tuberculous lesions led to fistulae. A few days before Lourdes it was confirmed she had "four enormous abscesses from which pus ran freely." On 28 May, after receiving Holy Communion at the Grotto, her suffering ceased, the wounds closed, her appetite returned. At the M.B.V. the next day it was verified the fistulae had sealed perfectly. She gained 10 kg in 10 months. Mgr Rumeau declared: "this cure must be attributed to a special intervention of God, and that in it one must see a miraculous event."

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 Angers recognized it on 5 August 1910. Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death before antibiotics. Rapid, complete cure without drugs is medically unexplained.