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Miracle at Lourdes

Monday, February 12th, 2018

A new miracle at Lourdes was confirmed on Sunday by a French bishop.

Bishop Jacques Benoit-Gonin declared the cure of a Catholic nun who was an invalid for nearly four decades and recovered after making a pilgrimage to Lourdes a miracle.

It was the 70th miraculous recovery attributed to divine intervention in Lourdes.

Benoit-Gonin of the Beauvais diocese north of Paris proclaimed the miracle 10 years after Bernadette Moriau, now 79, went to Lourdes. Read more

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