Lourdes: after the pilgrimage, start walking

Esther BRACHMANN. "Get me out of this mortuary!" Born in Paris in 1881 (France). Disease: Tuberculous peritonitis. Healed in Lourdes on August 21, 1896, aged 15. Miracle recognized on 6 June 1908 by Archbishop Léon Amette of Paris. Esther no longer leads a teenage life. At 15, he has the impression that the Villepinte hospital is a real mortuary. This impression is not far from being shared by the dozen companions, also tuberculose, who make, like her, this pilgrimage of the last opportunity. We are in August 1896. On August 21 morning, the hospitaliers of Notre Dame de Salut, faithful servants of the sick of the National Pilgrimage, drop her off the train and transport her to the Grotto and, from there, to the swimming pools. It comes out with the certainty of being healed. The pains have ceased ... The swelling of her missing belly. He can walk ... he is hungry. But a question gnaws her: "Why me?". In the afternoon, he follows the pilgrimage activities like a healthy person. Two days later, she is accompanied to the Bureau of Medical Findings where doctors, after a careful examination, confirm the recovery. Back in Villepinte, the treating doctors are stunned, stunned, bewildered. They keep Esther under observation for a year! Only in 1897, returning from the pilgrimage of thanksgiving, did they deign to draw up a certificate where she was recognized "healed from her return from Lourdes, in 1896". In 1908, she was examined again and in perfect health, on the occasion of the investigation opened by the archbishop of Paris, Mons. Leon Amette, in view of the recognition of this healing as well as those of Clementine Trouvé and Marie Lesage and Lemarchand, the involuntary heroines of a "novel" by Zola!