Word: jeanson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attendants carried him on a stretcher to the healing spring in the grotto. They lowered him into the water. A few moments later, Godard stood up, unassisted. "I'm cured!" he cried. "It's a miracle!" "You should be very thankful," said the attendant priest, Abbé Jeanson, "but are you really cured?" To prove his point, the exuberant pilgrim hopped & skipped around the priest...
...bounty of God," said Abbé Desprez, "can fall on anyone, good or not so good. God loves us all." Some accepted the explanation. But others whispered to neighbors' dark suggestions that here was no miracle. The clergy at Lourdes were noncommittal. "The Church," said Abbé Jeanson, "reserves absolutely its judgment on M. Godard. A year from now, if he is still cured, we may know. Meanwhile, because of the circumstances of this case, we will be more prudent than ever...