The healing of Mlle. This miracle caused Pascal to begin collecting materials for his Defense of Christianity, which was to be entitled Apology for the Christian Religion , but which was never published. Now Pascal was a scientific man. I don't claim to know what to do with this. Perhaps if we were there we would think differently in one way or another, but we must stay with the Bible and take our view of miracles from it alone.
Anecdotes are no substitute.
Now, it is clear that miracles are essential to the Christian faith. It was, as you know, claimed in the later 19th century and through the 20th century that if you got rid of the miraculous you would have pure Christianity and in a form everyone, even the most scientifically minded, could embrace. But, of course, what you had was not Christianity at all. But you cannot do that with Christianity. It is precisely the story of a great miracle.