Deepertruth: Eucharistic Miracle at Lourdes 1901

On the 17th of December, 1899, the fast mail on the way from Bordeaux to Paris met with a collision. In the mail car was Gabriel Gargam, a 30-year-old post office express clerk. At the time of the wreck the train was going at the speed of fifty miles an hour.  By the crash Gargam was thrown fifty-two feet.  He was terribly bruised and broken and paralyzed from the waist down.  He was barely alive when lifted onto a stretcher.  

Arrived at Lourdes, he was carried to themiraculous pool and tenderly placed in its waters–no effect.  Rather a bad effect resulted, for the exertion threw him into a swoon and he lay apparently dead.  On the way back they saw the procession of the Blessed Sacrament approaching.  They stood aside to let it pass, having placed a cloth over the face of the man whom they supposed to be dead.

As the priest passed carrying the Sacred Host, he pronouncedBenediction over the sorrowful group around the covered body.  Soon there was a movement from under the covering.  To the amazement of the bystanders, the body raised itself to a sitting posture.    He got up and stood erect, walked a few paces and said that he was cured.  The multitude looked in wonder, and then fell on their knees and thanked God for this new sign of His power at the shrine of His Blessed Mother. For two years hardly any food had passed his lips but now he sat down to the table and ate a hearty meal.