Healing of Justin Bouhort

Justin Bouhort, aged 2, had never walked and was dying from "consumption." His mother took him to the Grotto in the late afternoon. With the child in her arms, she bathed him in the hollow recently dug by labourers. Those around shouted and tried to restrain her from "killing her child!" She lifted him out and returned home. Justin slept peacefully; in the days that followed he recovered and walked. He grew to adulthood and attended the canonization of Bernadette in Rome in 1933. The Bishop of Tarbes officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 18 January 1862.

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 Tarbes recognized it on 18 January 1862. The condition was documented by physicians before the healing and verified as serious and incurable. The Medical Bureau and bishop confirmed the cure.