France: Official recognition of a 68th miracle at Lourdes
On October 11, 2012, Bishop Alceste Catella of the diocese of Casale Monferrato in northern Italy, announced the official recognition of the miraculous cure of Italian nun Luigina Traverso in 1965. Born in 1934, she suffered from paralytic lumbar sciatica, which several operations had failed to relieve. During a visit to Lourdes in July of 1965, she regained the use of her legs and stood up from her wheelchair.
According to the website of the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco, the order to which Sister Luigina belonged, she visited at Lourdes from July 20th to the 26th and assisted at the ceremonies lying on a stretcher, because she could neither walk nor stand. On July 23, at the procession of the Blessed Sacrament, when the monstrance was carried past her, she experienced “a sensation of warmth and well-being, and felt the sudden impulse to stand." Immediately she was able to move her paralysed lower limbs and the pain vanished. She returned from Lourdes happy, not on a stretcher but on her two feet.
The Lourdes Medical Bureau decided to open an official investigation into her cure on July 28, 1966.
(Sources: kipa-apic.ch – afp.com – DICI no. 265, 23/11/12)
