Healing of Jean-Pierre Bély

Jean-Pierre Bély was affected by multiple sclerosis from 1972. He was classified as a total invalid by the French health system when he went on pilgrimage to Lourdes in October 1987. Those who accompanied him did not think he would survive the trip. At the end of the pilgrimage he received the anointing of the sick in the shrine's esplanade. When he returned home, he was already able to walk. Today virtually all traces of the illness have disappeared. The Bishop of Angoulême officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 9 February 1999.

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 Angoulême recognized it on 9 February 1999. MS has no cure; complete remission is not a recognised outcome. The disease does not reverse.