Deepertruth: A 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.  Taken to a hospital, his existence for some time was a living death.  After eight months he had wasted away to a mere skeleton, weighing but seventy-eight pounds, although normally a big man.  His feet became gangrenous.  He could take no solid food and was obliged to take nourishment by a tube.  Only once in twenty-four hours could he be fed even that way.

Gargam's condition was pitiable in the extreme.  He could not help himself even in the most trifling needs.  Two trained nurses were needed day and night to assist him.  Previous to the accident, Gargam had not been to church for fifteen years.  His aunt, who was a nun of the Order of the Sacred Heart, begged him to go to Lourdes.  He refused.  She continued her appeals to him to place himself in the hands of Our Lady of Lourdes.  He was deaf to all her prayers.  After continuous pleading of his mother he consented to go to Lourdes.  It was now two years since the accident, and not for a moment had he left his bed all that time.  He was carried on a stretcher to the train.  The exertion caused him to faint, and for a full hour he was unconscious.   Eucharistic Miracles happen at every Mass! Sometimes the Lord gives revelation to that fact!