LE FIGARO.
- Lourdes is the only place of pilgrimage in the world where there is a Medical Findings Office which validates the unexplained nature of a cure.
What is his role?
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Dr. Alessandro DE FRANCISCIS.
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The Office of Medical Findings was created in 1883, at the request of the rector of Lourdes, to subject cases of potentially unexplained cures to rigorous and collegial medical verification.
The Office of Medical Findings and the Cmil (International Medical Committee of Lourdes), which brings together university professors and researchers in different fields of medicine, apply a scientific method.
Our role as doctors is to say if the person is cured and if this healing is unexplained.
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