| Healing Cancer At Lourdes | | | | instantly felt a sensation of electrical |
| | | | charge or heat running through his body. He |
| From the desk of Dr Magne, author of Cancer | | | | immediately claimed to be well, but the |
| Free For Life | | | | doctors at Lourdes have seen so many cases |
| | | | with people saying things like that that they |
| At Lourdes, Spiritual Healing happens. | | | | ignored him. Of course, he had arrived in a |
| Medical records there offer the most | | | | stretcher and full body cast. Two months |
| organized body of data stretching back in | | | | later, he was walking with the aid of a cane, |
| time. There has been an international medical | | | | and today he is alive and well and walks with |
| commission investigating claims of healing at | | | | only a slight limp. |
| Lourdes since 1947, but the whole thing | | | | |
| actually began in 1858. Of the six thousand | | | | Many doctors who visit Lourdes work with the |
| claims of extraordinary healing that have | | | | Bureau des Constatations Medicales in its |
| been made at Lourdes, only sixty-four have | | | | long-standing effort to verify and understand |
| survived the extremely rigorous protocol of | | | | cures there. Founded in 1883, the Bureau |
| the medical commission's investigation and | | | | requires sick pilgrims to bring medical |
| made it to the category called "miracle". | | | | documents and register with the Medical |
| It's actually quite difficult to be a | | | | Bureau when they arrive (...) so that they |
| miracle. One of the first things that the | | | | may be cared for properly at the sanctuary's |
| commission does, when a claim is submitted, | | | | hospitals and subsequently studied if they |
| is reject it if they are aware that the claim | | | | are cured. |
| involves a condition which has been known to | | | | |
| go into spontaneous remission. For this | | | | Because the cures at Lourdes have been |
| group, spontaneous remission is natural, not | | | | screened with such care and examined from so |
| supernatural! Read Cancer Free For Life for | | | | many points of view, there is overwhelming |
| many examples of spontaneous healing. | | | | evidence that many of them are authentic. |
| | | | Though medical science cannot explain them |
| One of those cases, finally validated in | | | | all, there can be no doubt that a great |
| 1976, involved a man named Vittorio Michelli. | | | | number of them happened just as their |
| He had a sarcoma of the pelvis and was in a | | | | witnesses said. The Bureau's careful work, |
| full body cast in a military hospital for | | | | furthermore, has produced a huge store of |
| over a year. His leg was completely separated | | | | case histories, which provide many insights |
| from his pelvis at the hip, because the bone | | | | regarding the body's remarkable |
| was being eaten away by the cancer, and there | | | | responsiveness to spiritual influence. Its |
| was nothing they could do for him. It was an | | | | archives conceivably contain the world's |
| incurable condition that was progressing on a | | | | largest and richest source of evidence for |
| daily basis. Eventually he asked to be taken | | | | the authenticity and power of religious |
| to Lourdes where he was bathed in water and | | | | healing. |