{"id":8475,"date":"2002-12-29T17:25:45","date_gmt":"2002-12-29T22:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/12\/29\/lourdes-has-its-66th-officially-recognized-miracle\/"},"modified":"2002-12-29T17:25:45","modified_gmt":"2002-12-29T22:25:45","slug":"lourdes-has-its-66th-officially-recognized-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/12\/lourdes-has-its-66th-officially-recognized-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lourdes Has Its 66th Officially Recognized Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>PARIS, DEC. 24, 2002 (Zenit.org).- The latest officially<br \/>\nrecognized miracle at Lourdes involves a Frenchman who was once paralyzed by<br \/>\nmultiple sclerosis, a newspaper reported. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Le Monde dedicated an entire page to the scientifically<br \/>\ninexplicable cure of an illness that began affecting Jean-Pierre B\ufffdly in 1972.<br \/>\nHe was classified by the French health system as a total invalid by the time he<br \/>\nwent on pilgrimage to Lourdes in October 1987, at age 51. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Those who accompanied B\ufffdly did not think he would survive<br \/>\nthe trip. At the end of the pilgrimage he received the anointing of the sick in<br \/>\nthe shrine&#8217;s esplanade. When he returned home, he was already able to walk.<br \/>\nToday, virtually all traces of the illness have disappeared. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Patrick Fontanaud, an agnostic physician who looked after<br \/>\nB\ufffdly, said there is no scientific explanation for what occurred. It was Lourdes&#8217;<br \/>\n66th officially recognized miracle since the 1858 apparitions of the Blessed<br \/>\nVirgin. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The head of the Lourdes Medical Office, Dr. Patrick<br \/>\nTheillier, told Le Monde that there are two other miraculous cures about to be<br \/>\nrecognized: a 25-year-old Frenchwoman and a 60-year-old Italian woman, both<br \/>\ncured in 1995. <\/font><br \/>[<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/zenit.org\/english\/visualizza.phtml?sid=29417\" target=_blank>Zenit<br \/>\nStory<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lourdes-france.org\/gb\/gbsa0021.htm\"\ntarget=_blank>Story from the Lourdes website<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, DEC. 24, 2002 (Zenit.org).- The latest officially recognized miracle at Lourdes involves a Frenchman who was once paralyzed by multiple sclerosis, a newspaper reported. Le Monde dedicated an entire&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}