“In 2008, while on pilgrimage, I witnessed a lady walk out of her wheel chair in Lourdes after nine pain-filled years…”
In this edition of A Minute of Mary, Paul Elarde continues his reflections on the apparitions and miracles of Lourdes.
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When Our Lady appeared to St Bernadette in Lourdes, the parish priest asked Bernadette to ask the Lady who She is – prudently fearing that the apparition may be of Satan. Finally, during the 16th apparition, Our Lady said: “I am the Immaculate Conception”. The uneducated Bernadette had no idea what this meant but when She gave the reply to her priest, he was taken aback because he knew young Bernadette could not have made this up. It also confirmed the recently proclaimed Dogma of the Church that because of the merits of the Cross of Jesus, Mary was conceived without original sin.
Our Lady told Bernadette, “I do not promise to make you happy in this world but in the next.” And so Bernadette suffered much, through illness during her short life as a nun and died at the age of 22. Her body was later found to be incorrupt and can be still seen today in a glass case at her convent in Never, France.
In 2008, while on pilgrimage, I witnessed a lady walk out of her wheelchair in Lourdes after nine pain-filled years. Today she is completely and permanently healed, and also my wife! You can hear her amazing story from the Cradio library under the talks of ‘Our Queen, Our Mother’. Obviously, this experience greatly impacted my faith and reinforces the truth and the seriousness of the messages that Our Lady calls us to embrace.
