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