The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-26
LOURDES MIRACLES PROVED
Commission Investigates Five Cases
and Makes Remarkable Report.

! paris Correspondence New York Sun
The Semaine Religieuse de Paris. the
official organ of the Archbishop of Paris.
publishes this week an ordnance by Mgr.
| Annette. the archbishop. giving ''canoni-
/ cal judgment on ceveral recoveries due
10 the intercession of Our Lady of Lour-
des
! Five cases are cited which have bean
] Investigated by the committee appointed
Sune l.. 1861. by the late Arch bishop Car
tdinai Richard. of which Rev. Able Ode
| lin was president; Rev. Able de Ia
GuibOursere. Canon of Notre Dame. and
I Rev Able Berlin. professor at the Cath
Ollie Institute We're members and Rev
Able BournisIen was secretary.
In each of these cases the committee
investigated the. evidence, medical and
general, from which the members con-
Guided first, that the subject was suf-
fering from the disease alleged; second
that the cure was instantaneous. and
third. that the cure has proved permd-
nent.
The five people cured were: Miss Glenn
entine TrOuVe, now nun. cured in 1891
when aged Is. of a sore in the right leg
for which she had been under treatment
for three years: Marie Lemarchand. now
Mrs. Author. cured in Is he age of
IS of tuberculosis and u - arie Lee
branchu cured in 1892, at the sge of So
Of pulmonary tuberculosis (bcth her par
ents died of tuberculOsis): Esther BraS:l-
mann cured at the age of Is. in 1896, OF
tubercular peritonitis. Madame Francois,
cured in August, 1899, of an inflammatOry
oedema from watch she had suffered
November 1885.
1t win be noticed that in each case the
subject of the cure was a woman As
an example of how each case is reported
in the archbishop's ordinance the second
may be quoted in full, as ii has an addi-
tional interest in the reference made to
lola and his book -'Lourdes.'
AS regards Marie Lemarchand, today
Madame Author Of Caen, but living now
in Paris
Il. She was cured at Lourdes. Aug p.
1892 at the age of IS years
-. The organic and Craze character
of her malady is proved not only by wit
neSses worthy of belief, but by the young
girls doctor. who writes that she was
suffering from tuberculosis at the two
submits (of the lung). from ulcers on the
face as wide as the hand ana suppurating
abundantly,' with sores OF the same ma
ture on the legs. and that this state had
lasted several years without showing any
signs of growing better.
Sc The cure OF this terrible disease was
produced suddenly According TO the GER
tificate of the doctor who had attended
the invalid to no effect up 20 that time
the sores dried up at once. an suppura-
ton disappeared instantly and a 'cicat-
rized tissue formed immediately: very
many witnesses saw this sudden transfer
nation including the novelist who has
depicted the Young girl under the name of
Elise Rouquet. Her doctor having seen
her Immediately on her return from
LOurdes wrote: L did not recognize her.
so greatly had she changed. II was
graceful young girl who advanced toward
me, instead OF the human wreck. with
horrible and monsJrOus aspect and repul-
sive odOr. that had seen ten days before.
the tuberculosis hao disappeared as Well
= The malady was cured in a perna-
nent manner; the only remains of il today
after lapse OF sixteen years are some
scars. scarcely rperceptible. as Is estab-
ished by the report Of a specialist in
skin diseases. who is doctor at one of
the Paris hospitals: her general state has
shared in the radical transformation of
which the affected parts were the subject,
for Marie Lemarchand has enjoyed since
then perfect health; thus the cure must
be regarded as complete. absolute and
definite. just as il was sudden
The ordinance after giving the details of
the four other cases. even at greater
length than the one quoted. concludes
with the archbishops judgment that these