Inside Lourdes: How Doctors Investigate Claims of Medical Miracles

Sister Bernadette Moriau suffered from severe Cauda Equina disorder causing total paralysis of her lower body for half her life, requiring braces, spinal implants, and high-dose morphine until her reported cure.

In the shadow of the Pyrenees, where faith and empiricism have long regarded each other with mutual suspicion, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes has spent over a century attempting to hold both in the same hand. Four million pilgrims arrive each year seeking cures that medicine has declined to offer, and a small, rigorous body of physicians has spent decades determining which among thousands of claimed healings defies every explanation science can produce. Of the 7,000 cases submitted since 1883, only 72 have survived that scrutiny — a number small enough to dismiss and strange enough to li

Inside Lourdes: How Doctors Investigate Claims of Medical Miracles

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