After a tough battle against the disease he recovered in Lourdes

Paul PELLEGRIN. A colonel in the struggle of his life ... Born April 12, 1898, residing in Toulon (France). Disease: Post-operative fistula from emptying of liver abscess. Healed on October 3, 1950, at 52 years old. Miracle recognized on 8 December 1953 by Mons. Auguste Gaudel, bishop of Féjus. On October 5, 1950, Colonel Pellegrin and his wife returned from Lourdes home to Toulon, and the colonel went to the hospital as usual to resume the treatment of injections of quinine in his right side. This fistula has been resisting every treatment for months and months. She appeared following an operation for a liver abscess. He, lieutenant colonel of the colonial infantry, now uses all his energy in this battle, in the fierce fight against this microbial infection. And nothing has ever improved, on the contrary, the worsening is continuous! Returning from Lourdes, neither he nor his wife really foresee a recovery, even if Mrs. Pellegrin has found, after bathing in the water of the Grotto, that her husband's wound is no longer as before. At the Toulon hospital, the nurses refuse to give the quinine injection because the plague has disappeared and in its place there is a pink spot of freshly rebuilt skin ... It is only then that the colonel realizes that he has been healed. The doctor who examines him asks him suddenly: "But what did he put on it?" - "I'll be back from Lourdes" replies. The disease will never return. It was the last "miraculous" born in the XNUMXth century.

Prayer

O Blessed Virgin, Immaculate Mary, who told Bernadetta that you would make her happy, not in this world, but in the other life: let me live detached from the fallen goods of this world, and place my hope only in those of Heaven.

Holy Mary…

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.

Prayer

O Immaculate Virgin, our Mother, who have deigned to manifest yourselves to an unknown girl, let us live in the humility and simplicity of the children of God, to have part in your heavenly communications. Grant us to be able to do penance for our past mistakes, make us live with a great horror of sin, and more and more united to Christian virtues, so that your Heart remains open above us and does not cease to pour the graces, which make us live down here divine love and make it ever more worthy of the eternal crown. So be it.