LE FIGARO. – Lourdes is the only pilgrimage site in the world where there is an Office of Medical Research that confirms the inexplicable nature of the healing. What is his role?
D:r: Alessandro DE FRANCISCIS. – The Office of Medical Discovery was created in 1883 at the request of the Rector of Lourdes to subject cases of potentially unexplained cures to rigorous and collegial medical scrutiny. The Office of Medical Discovery and the Cmil (International Medical Committee of Lourdes), which brings together university professors and researchers from various fields of medicine, apply the scientific method. It is our role as doctors to say whether a person has been cured and whether this cure is unexplained.
Since 1883, just over 8,000 cases of healing have been studied. There is no miracle in medicine, it is not our sphere, it is the interpretation of the Church. When the cure is considered inexplicable, it is the bishop of the place where he resides…
Source: Le Figaro
