He stayed in turn in all the hospitals in the city, being treated with every care and consideration, until at last he met with a doctor who insisted on cauterisation and other disagreeable remedies.

Delannoy thereupon opined that the time to be cured had arrived, and cured he became, and was discharged.

He next appeared at Lourdes, supported by crutches, and presenting every symptom of being hopelessly crippled.

With other infirm and decrepid people he was dipped in the piscina and so efficacious did this treatment prove that he came out another man, threw his crutches to the ground and walked, as an onlooker expressed it, "like a rural postman." All Lourdes rang with the fame of the miracle, and the Church, after starring Delannoy round the country as a specimen of what could be done at the holy spring, placed him in charge of a home for invalids.

But this was too much like hard work, and he soon decamped with all the money he could lay his hands on.