John Traynor — Lourdes Healing

John Traynor was a Royal Navy sailor from Liverpool, hit by machine gun fire at Gallipoli in 1915. The wounds severed the nerves in his right arm, leaving it completely paralyzed, and shrapnel left an open skull wound requiring a metal plate. He was also left with severe epilepsy. By 1923, he had been assessed at 100% disability by the British War Office and was scheduled for a hospital for incurably disabled veterans. In July 1923, he was carried to Lourdes on a stretcher. During the Blessed Sacrament procession, his paralyzed legs and dead right arm began to function. He walked home pushing his own wheelchair. The Lourdes Medical Bureau confirmed a 'prodigious healing absolutely outside and above the forces of nature.' His epilepsy ceased completely. He returned annually as a stretcher-bearer until 1939. Officially recognized as the 71st miracle of Lourdes.

The case has dual secular verification: the British military pension board continuously documented his 100% disability prior to the cure, and the Lourdes Medical Bureau examined him in 1926 and confirmed the healing. Severed nerves do not regenerate—the paralysis was permanent by medical standards. His epilepsy ceased. He returned annually as a stretcher-bearer for 16 years, demonstrating the recovery was lasting. The evidence does not rely on Church testimony alone; British military records are independent of religious authority.