Healing of Marie Fabre

This farmer's wife had her health severely undermined by three difficult pregnancies. She suffered from uterine prolapse, dyspepsia, and mucomembranous enteritis. For over a year treatment brought no improvement. She made a vow to go to Lourdes in 1911. She arrived in such a feeble state that one feared for her life. In the afternoon of 26 September, after the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, she felt better, spoke, and sat up. She asked for food and ate normally—yet for two years she had never eaten solid food. The Bishop of Cahors officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 8 September 1912.

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 Cahors recognized it on 8 September 1912. Chronic gastroenteritis resistant to treatment does not typically resolve suddenly. The bishop declared it miraculous because it happened without medical treatment.