6. Water from Grotto Cures Dozens
In 1858, a 14-year-old peasant girl from Lourdes, France named Bernadette Soubirous claimed she saw a Lady in white, who told her to dig in the ground and drink from the spring she found. News of the purported apparition and the resulting grotto quickly spread, and soon, hundreds of sick patients were flocking to the site to drink from the spring. Despite government efforts to fence off the grotto, many cures were reported as a result of the “miraculous water,” seven of the healings confirmed by a professor to be lacking in logical medical explanations. In response to the numerous claims of cures, Pope Saint Pius X set up the Lourdes Medical Bureau, which is completely independent of the Church. As of today,69 of the thousands of cases brought to it have been certified as genuine miracles. Bernadette was officially recognized a saint in 1933.
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