Healing of Elisa Aloi

Elisa Aloi had tuberculous arthritis of the right knee at 17. Over 10 years she developed numerous tuberculous infections with fistulae. In 1958 she went to Lourdes again in a much worse condition, encased in a plaster cast with four fistulae. Just ten days after leaving Sicily, her surgeon wrote "Elisa Aloi returned from Lourdes completely cured." Prof. Salmon's report led the International Medical Committee to adopt the verdict of a medically inexplicable cure. She later married and had four children. The Bishop of Messina officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 26 May 1965.

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 Messina recognized it on 26 May 1965. Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death before antibiotics. Rapid, complete cure without drugs is medically unexplained.