45 years after the event, the International Medical Committee of Lourdes (CMIL), (CMIL) has been recognised as “unexplained at the present state of the sciences” the cure of Sr Luigina Traverso FMA. Now it is up to the Bishop of Casal Monferrato, Mons. Alceste Catella, to give his interpretation of the facts and eventually to express his opinion regarding the miraculous cure.
Born in 1934 at Novi Ligure, Sr Traverso found herself at scarcely 30 years of age completely paralysed after a number of operations on her vertebral column. She was suffering greatly, also because she saw herself unable to fulfil her educational mission..
In 1965 she asked for and obtained from Mother Angela Vespa permission to take part in a pilgrimage to Lourdes. Her community at Tortona ( Piedmont ) set themselves to pray more intensely for Sr. Luigina and promised to live according to the highest level of fraternal charity and total fidelity to the Constitutions in order to accompany their Sister's pilgrimage with the efficacy of their intercession. Everyone knew that only a miracle could cure Sr. Luigina who had made her perpetual vows the previous year.
She was in Lourdes between July 20 and 26 1965. She took part in all the celebrations lying on a stretcher, because she was unable to walk or even stand.
On July 23, during the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament , as the Monstrance passed close to her, she felt a strong sensation of heat and wellbeing and the urge to stand up. She immediately began to move her lower limbs which were paralysed and the pain that had caused her so much suffering for years disappeared.
The decision to open the file to examine the cure was taken on July 28, 1966 at the first meeting of the Bureau des Constatations Médicales . It was studied in depth by the same Bureau on July 31, 1984 and finally, on July 28, 2010, the cure was confirmed with a formal and unanimous vote, stating that “the way this cure took place remains inexplicable in the present state of scientific knowledge”.
In February the Bishop of Lourdes brought the news of the cure to the Bishop of Casale Monferrato
While pointing out that in order to speak about a miracle the definitive decision of the Church is required, Bishop Catella nevertheless said: “However, we have here the undoubted scientific basis on which to reach certainty in the matter.”
Sr. Luigina belongs to the St Joseph community of San Salvatore Monferrato, where she is a local councillor and bursar.
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