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There are many, many miracles that are attributed to the intercession of

Bernadette. The two listed below were submitted in her cause for

beatification and canonization.

Henri Boisselet, attacked in November, 1913, by tubercular peritonitis,

had received the Last Sacraments. A novena to Bernadette was begun, for

him and with him, and was due to end on December 8th. On that very day he

was instantaneously and completely cured. Passed as fit for military

service during the 1914-1918 war, he was drafted to the front, where he

was later taken prisoner. After thirty-two months of captivity in Germany,

he returned home still in sound health.

Sister Marie-Mélanie Meyer, of the Sisters of Providence of Ribeauvillé,

was infirmarian in the Sacred Heart Convent in Moulins. In 1910, when she

was thirty years of age, acute pains and frequent vomiting revealed a

gastric ulcer. Soon she became incapable of taking any nourishment, was

reduced to extreme weakness and near to death. She vowed a pilgrimage to

Bernadette's tomb. On the journey from Moulins to Nevers she suffered

intense pain. Once in the little chapel of St Joseph she summoned up

strength to prostrate herself on the tombstone and then to remain there in

prayer, now on her knees, now seated, for an hour. Suddenly her pains

disappeared. Seized with a violent hunger she took a meal without any

difficulty. She felt her strength returning already, and the return

journey to Moulins was accomplished without fatigue or suffering. The next

day Sister Marie-Mélanie returned to normal life and resumed her post.

In addition, the church accepted the fact that her body remained incorrupt

after being buried a number of years as a miracle to support canonization.

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