The most famous miracles of Our Lady of Lourdes

Lourdes, a small town in the heart of the high Pyrenees which has become one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in the world thanks to the Marian apparitions and miracles linked to the Madonna. In 1858, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous reported having met the “beautiful Lady” eighteen times. Thanks to Bernadette, today we have a widespread iconography of the Madonna, dressed in white and with a blue belt.

The Catholic Church he recognized the apparitions of Lourdes as authentic in 1862 after a long investigation into the story of Bernadette. The bishop of Tarbes wrote in the pastoral letter that Mary Immaculate, Mother of God, had really appeared to Bernadette and that the faithful could believe it to be certain. Since then, Lourdes has become a place of faith and hope, with millions of pilgrims going there to seek comfort and healing.

THELourdes water it is considered miraculous and many of the healings attributed to the Madonna occurred after the sick immersed in water or they drank it. Even though it is normal water it can have an effectthe thaumaturgic and salvific thanks to details frequencies of light which inhibit the proliferation of germs and bacteria. Some researchers have also observed that Lourdes water forms crystals of superior beauty when frozen.

Miracles that occurred in Lourdes and recognized by the Church

The Catholic Church recognizes a miracle as a healing if the original diagnosis is confirmed and the disease considered incurable according to medical knowledge is cured immediately, completely and definitively. Over the years, they have been recognized seventy healings miraculous among the thousands of people who went to Lourdes.

There are many examples of miracles, one concerns paralyzed child who started walking after being immersed in the water of Lourdes. Another concerns a paralyzed woman who regained the use of his arm and foot after receiving the communion in the cave. Then there is that of a man with a bone cancer who had bone regeneration after being immersed in the spring water.

Lourdes has become a symbol of faith and hope for many people around the world. Pilgrims go there to search comfort, prayer and if possible, a miraculous recovery. The city has become a center of spirituality and hospitality, con hospitals, reception centres, churches and places of prayer.