Lourdes: Justin, the sick child healed by the Madonna

Justin BOUHORT. What a beautiful story that of this healing! Since his birth, Justin has been ill and regarded as infirm. At 2 years of age, he presents a huge delay in growth and has never walked. At the beginning of July his mother Croisine, desperate to see him on his deathbed, decides to go to pray with him at the Grotto, despite the prohibition of the police! access to the Grotto was in fact forbidden at that time. As soon as she arrived, her mom pleaded in front of the rock with the baby in her arms, surrounded by a crowd of onlookers. Then he decides to bathe the dying child in the tub that the stone-masters had recently built. Around her exclamations and protests rise, she wants to prevent her from "killing her baby"! After an apparently long time, he retracts it and returns home with Justin in his arms. The baby is still breathing weakly. Everyone fears the worst, except the mother who believes more than ever that "the Virgin will heal him". The baby falls asleep quietly. In the following days, Justin recovers and walks! Everything is in order. Growth is regular, adulthood is reached. Before his death, which occurred in 1935, he witnessed Bernadette's canonization on December 8, 1933 in Rome.