Another Lourdes Miracle

BISHOP THEAS of Tarbes and Lourdes has issued a decree declaring the cure of a 39-year-old German Sister at Lourdes a miracle.
The cure of Thee Angele of Tettnang, Germany—now Sister Maria Mercedes of the Immaculate Conception convent in Lourdes—took place in 1950. Suffering from multiple sclerosis she had been pronounced incurable by doctors.
Sister Maria Mercedes is the first German whose cure at Lourdes has been officially decreed to be miraculous. Her cure is the first to be recognized as miraculous this year. Last December, the miraculous cure of a Swiss Benedictine was recognized. He is Brother Leon
Schwager. 0.5.8., also a victim of multiple sclerosis.
Thee Angele, a stenographer, was 23 in 1944 when she fell ill with multiple sclerosis, which led quickly to complete paralysis. Doctors said her case was hopeless when she arrived here in 1950. On May 20, however, she was cured.
In April of this year the International Medical Committee of Lourdes rated that her cure was "medically unexplainable".
Sister Maria Mercedes, who entered religious life in 1955, marked Bishop Theas' decree by attending a thanksgiving service at the Lourdes grotto with other Sisters of her community.
The Bishop's decree stated: "We affirm that the healing of
Then Angele, known in religion as Maria Mercedes, which occurred at Lourdes on May 20. 1950, is miraculous and must be attributed to an extraordinary revelation of the power of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Immaculate and the Mother of God."