I was doing my research about Lourdes, France and found an article in the Bulletin of the history of Medicine Journal an article entitled, Seeing Is Believing? The Form and Substance of French Medical Debates over Lourdes. In this article, Jason Szabo reasserted the extent to which the medical community remained divided, along religious lines, over the existence and nature of the cures taking place at Lourdes well into the twentieth century, while analyzing how Catholic physicians were able to create an aura of therapeutic credibility around the cures. Szabo states that recent works on Lourdes have tended to emphasize the positive personal, social, and spiritual aspects of a pilgrimage, while downplaying the role of religious politics in the events at Lourdes. Szabo had successfully presented both sides of the argument, the believers versus the non-believers, by listing down multiple cases of illnesses that are healed through miracles and those cases that are disputed through science by non-believers.
I figured that most people go to Lourdes seeking to be healed miraculously and there is nothing wrong with that except that because they are too focused about this matter, they might miss out the true essence of the Pilgrimage along the way.
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