Is their any real evidence that miracles take place at Lourdes?
Alex Carrel’s – Journey to Lourdes Alex Carrel (1873-1944) is possibly the only Nobel-Prize winner (medicine, 1912) who witnessed a miraculous cure. Professor Alex Carrel of the Lyons Medical University, went to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes as an unbeliever and ex-Catholic, to study “psychological improvements in health that are easily explained by the mass hysteria accompanying emotional demonstrations of faith.” That’s what he said when he met at Lourdes a fellow student from their medical university days. He added: “If a truly organic cure took place, that would be different. If Marie Ferrand was cured I would believe. But she will not be!” The woman had been in the same compartment of the Lourdes pilgrims’ train that Carrel had traveled in from Paris. She was in the last stages of tubercular peritonitis, the hard mass of fluid in her stomach bulging ominously. Several times on the train journey she passed out and Carrel had given her morphine injections. He angrily jotted in h
