Do you know the story of Pierre de Rudder, a Belgian working-man ?" Everybody had again begun to listen.
"This man," continued M.Sabathier, "had his leg broken by the fall of a tree.

Eight years afterwards the two fragments of the bone had not yet joined together again--the two ends could be seen in the depths of a sore which was continually suppurating; and the leg hung down quite limp, swaying in all directions.

Well, it was sufficient for this man to drink a glassful of the miraculous water, and his leg was made whole again.

He was able to walk without crutches, and the doctor said to him: 'Your leg is like that of a new-born child.' Yes, indeed, a perfectly new leg." Nobody spoke, but the listeners exchanged glances of ecstasy.
"And, by the way," resumed M.Sabathier, "it is like the story of Louis Bouriette, a quarryman, one of the first of the Lourdes miracles.

Do you know it?
Bouriette had been injured by an explosion during some blasting operations.