Lourdes: after the coma, the pilgrimage, the recovery

Marie BIRÉ. After the coma, Lourdes ... Born Marie Lucas on October 8, 1866, in Sainte Gemme la Plaine (France). Disease: Central blindness, bilateral papillary atrophy. Healed on August 5, 1908, aged 41. Miracle recognized on 30 July 1910 by Mons. Clovis Joseph Catteau, bishop of Luçon. On February 25, 1908 Marie leaves the coma but falls back into the night. Here she went blind! After finding his spirit again, he wishes to go to Lourdes. His life has been swinging for about ten days: on February 14, 1908, he suddenly presented alarming signs: vomiting of blood, pre-gangrenous state of the forearm and left hand with very intense pains. Three or four days later, he falls into a coma from brain causes. On August 5, 1908, Marie made this much desired pilgrimage. After a mass in the cave she immediately regains her sight. Examined the same day by an ophthalmologist, one must admit an incredible phenomenon: the anatomical causes of blindness have not disappeared, but Marie can, despite everything, read the smallest characters of the newspaper that doctors submit to her. In the following years, she is examined again by doctors. There is no longer any injury. Its healing is recognized as total and persistent.