Lourdes has its 66th miracle. (News in Brief: France).Paris--The latest officially recognized miracle at Lourdes involves a Frenchman who was once paralyzed par·a·lyze tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es 1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. 2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear. by multiple sclerosis, a newspaper reported. The daily newspaper, Le Monde n. 1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. Le beau monde fashionable society. See Beau monde. Demi monde See Demimonde. , dedicated an entire page to the scientifically inexplicable in·ex·pli·ca·ble adj. Difficult or impossible to explain or account for. in·ex  pli·ca·bil cure of an illness that began affecting Jean-Pierre Bely in 1972. He was classified by the French health system as a total invalid by the time he went on pilgrimage to Lourdes in October 1987, at age 51. Those who accompanied Bely did not think he would survive the trip. At the end of the pilgrimage he received the anointing of the sick anointing of the sick, sacrament of the Orthodox Eastern Church and the Roman Catholic Church, formerly known as extreme unction. In it a sick or dying person is anointed on eyes, ears, nostrils, lips, hands, feet, and sometimes, in the case of men, the loins, by a in the shrine's esplanade. When he returned home, he was already able to walk. Today, virtually all traces of the illness have disappeared. Patrick Fontanaud, an agnostic ag·nos·tic n. 1. a. One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God. b. One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism. 2. physician who looked after Bely, said there is no scientific explanation for what occurred. It was Lourdes' 66th officially recognized miracle since the 1858 apparitions of the Blessed Virgin. T h e head of the Lourdes medical office, Dr. Patrick Theillier, told Le Monde that there are two other miraculous cures about to be recognized: a 25-year-old Frenchwoman and a 60-year-old Italian woman, both cured in 1995 (Zenit, Dec. 24/02). 
I heard that recently a miracle occurred in Lourdes. A person who had been in a wheelchair for years was able to stand and no longer needs wheelchair.<br><br>I would like to find up-to-date details of this. |
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