RE : Miracles Exam Week

Key words
● Interpretation: means to get rid of something completely
● Miracle: means not buying something because you disagree with it.
● Healing: means writing your name in a book to protest against something.
● Resurrection: the concept of coming back to life after death
● Lourdes: the pilgrimage site of Lourdes is near the Pyrenees mountains in France. Every year, it is
visited by millions of pilgrims, particularly Roman Catholics.
● St Bernadette: Bernadette Soubirous, also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, was the firstborn
daughter of a miller from Lourdes, in the department of Hautes-Pyrenees in France, and is best known
for experiencing Marian Apparition.
● Sacraments: A religious ceremony or ritual regarded as imparting divine grace.
● Allegory: A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral
or political one.

Modern Day Miracles

GABRIEL GARGAM:
➔ Gabriel Gargam was severely injured in a railway accident, where he was almost crushed to death and
paralysed from the waist down.
➔ He was left a human wreck and his condition continued to deteriorate.
➔ He wasn’t religious but his mother insisted he go to Lourdes. He was very weak, fed by a tube and
occasionally lapsing into unconsciousness.
➔ At Lourdes his paralysis disappeared and he could walk. He was still thin but within a short time he
could resume work.
➔ He lived to 83.

HEALTHY BABY BORN FROM LIVER:

➔ The baby was only discovered to be growing in the liver two weeks before birth.
➔ The baby was born successfully.
➔ Many mothers who had this died.

JEAN PIERRE BELY:

➔ Pierre was paralysed with multiple sclerosis
➔ French health system called him an invalid
➔ Visited Lourdes in 1987
➔ Received anointing of the sick and was able to walk
➔ No explanation for what occurred.