EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF A RELIGIOUS AT LOURDES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 17, 23 January 1891, Page 5

EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF A RELIGIOUS AT LOURDES.

(From the Ava Maria )

Among the most remarkable of the recent cores at Lourdes was that of Sittei Josephine-Marie, of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart, of St. Anbin, attached to the female orphan asylum of Goincourt, near Beauvais. She belongs to a family in which pn.monary con' sumption seems to be hereditary, hei brother and Bister having died of the disease. The incipient sjmptoms of this generally fatal malady became apparent in Sifter Josephine-Mane some years ago, and increased alarmingly, notwithstanding medical care, She was seldom free from a cougb, her breathing was ippressed, sho spat blood frequently, had night sweats, and finally became reduced to a state of complete exhaustion by fever. Sister Josephine-Marie was plunged three successive times into the piscina, during wbicb she experienced a salutary change throughout her system : she could breathe freely, the cough suddenly stopped, and new life seemed infused in her, The following nights she slept well ; her appetite also returned and the ate heartily, although for eighteen months previous her Bule nourishment bad been a email quantity of milk. At the examination before the medical bureau (composed of fourteen physicians from ail parts of France) not tbe slightest trace of any organic lesion in the lungs was perceptible . After ber return home she resumed all tbe duties of ber laborious

stored \o e bea t lth hh ° Od gfeatly wondering aad re i<> icin S *> ace her raV*r D l'u Lev L illant . fc be pbysician who attended Sister Josepbine- • mane through her long illness, and who, before she set out on the, pilgrimage gave a detailed csr-ificate of her tubercular affection; in !- again Wltn the utn »oßt care on her return to the convent ana hading her completely cured, wrote the following statement in proof of the miraculous occurrence : tP " ?• th « undersigned L3vaillant, medical doctor of the Faculty or rans, certify having examined Sister Josephine- Marie on the 2nd or August, 1890, and having delivered to her a certificate to the eff-ct inatsne was inanadvauced state of pulmonary decline, with deep Jesions in the lefc lung. To-day, August 2B. 1890, called in again to see Bister Josephine- Marie, I find, neither on auscultation nor percussion, any symptom of her former disease, nor any trace of the tUDercles, etc , etc. The general state of the sick nun before going to gourdes was extremely dangerous— persistent cough, sleeplessness , proiose night sweats, hemorrhage,— which state is so changed and improved that I can scarcely recognise my patient who was confined to Ded for eighteen months. In truth of which I deliver the present attestation. Beauvaia, Augu8t29, 1890." h. ♦l° r *" rr S rding tbis tntim^7t Dr. Levaillant wrote that he was ?k P f! *• • l(?ence had cbosen him as an instrument to confirm the authenticity of " this stupendous miracle."