Nun’s cure a miracle

A FRENCH bishop has declared the recovery a long-debilitated nun made after she visited the shrine in Lourdes was a miracle, the 70th event to be recognised as an act of divine intervention at the Catholic pilgrimage site.

Beauvais Bishop Jacques Benoit-Gonin proclaimed the miracle nearly a decade after Bernadette Moriau attended a blessing ceremony at Lourdes sanctuary in southern France.

Sr Moriau had four operations on her spinal column between 1968 and 1975 and was declared fully disabled in 1980 but after a 2008 visit to Lourdes was able to walk.