Here is another story taken from the book "The Book of Miracles: Extraordinary Events in Ordinary Lives" by Malcolm day. This story is very fasinating and well worth the read, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did :).....
"St. Bernadette of Lourdes"
"One cold day in February 1858, Bernadette Soubirous and two companions were searching locally for food and fuel. Later the two girls found Bernadette kneeling at the entrance to a cave in a trancelike state. When her companions managed to shake her out of the trance, she told them she had seen a soft glow in the cave, and a beautiful lady appeared within the glow.
Three days later Bernadette had a similar experience. The village buzzed with excitment. There now began the so-called "fortnight of apparitions." Every day a huge crowd, which grew to several thousand, followed the seer to the cave hoping to witness a miracle.
Eventually their patience was rewarded. After kneeling in a prayer, and still in ecstasy, she began furiously digging at the earth. Muddy water welled up in the hollow she had made. She reported that a voice told her "to drink and wash at the spring and eat the green you find growing there." The crowd gasped as Bernadette emerged from "the grotto" (as it became known) with her face covered in mud, chewing grass. The spring turned into a flowing stream, remarkably containing curative qualities.
One man who had been blind in one eye could see again after bathing in the water. A woman who had suffered with paralyzed hands likewise regained their use. A further five miraculous cures happened at the spring that year. News of the miracles spread like wildfire. The local priest became convinced when Bernadette reported the sixteenth apparition. The lady identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception" which he took to be divine confirmation of the Catholic dogma proclaimed by the Pope Pius IX four years earlier."
::note:: "Bernadette joined a convent where she remained for the rest of her short life, dying at the age of 35. In 1909, her body was exhumed and found to be incorrupt. She was canonized in 1933."
Miracles are real...and the divine is with us, always. God Bless always! })i({
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