Lourdes - an examination and account of miracles

Lourdes by The Very Rev. Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson - 1914 EVEN NOW, WRITING WITHIN TEN DAYS OF MY RETURN, ALL SEEMS LIKE A DREAM; AND YET I KNOW THAT I SAW IT. I had been present, in my own body, in the twentieth century, and seen Jesus pass along by the sick folk, as He passed two thousand years before. ...and then a great shaking ran through the crowd; A sudden cry had broken out, and it ran through the whole space; waxing in volume as it ran; hands clapped, voices shouted: "Un miracle! Un miracle!" And then again the finger of God flashed down, and again and again; and each time a sick and broken body sprang from its bed of pain and stood upright; and the crowd smiled and roared and sobbed. There were seven in all that afternoon. I am quite aware of all that can be said about subjectivity and auto-suggestion...but there comes a point in all arguments when nothing is worth anything except an assertion of a personal conviction. Such, then, is mine.