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John Treynor’s Miracle: How Lourdes Water Cured Paralysis and Epilepsy

The Miracle of John Treynor: How a Bath in Holy Water Cured a Sailor from Paralysis and Epilepsy

The British sailor John Treynor was born in 1883, served in the merchant navy, and later participated in World War I. In October 1914, he was wounded in Bruges, then came under machine gun fire during the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey. After that, he developed severe epilepsy, and one of his arms became paralyzed.

In 1920, he underwent surgery to try to alleviate his condition, but it made things worse, leaving him completely paralyzed below the waist. For several years, Treynor suffered, until he accidentally heard of a place in Lourdes, France, where, according to rumors, there was a source of sacred water that could cure any illness.

In 1858, a young woman named Bernadette Soubirous had several visions of the Virgin Mary in a grotto in Lourdes, where the Virgin pointed out a spot where a well should be dug, the water from which would be miraculous.

This grotto, known as the Massabielle Grotto, is still visited by Christians today, who hope to be healed by its miraculous water. It is believed that over the past century and a half, this water has healed around 7,000 people. Each year, more than five million pilgrims visit Lourdes.

When John Treynor arrived in Lourdes, he not only drank the water but also immersed himself in it no less than nine times. He didn’t manage to return to his hometown of Liverpool before his paralysis was miraculously cured, and his epilepsy also disappeared. The miraculous healing of John Treynor was officially recorded, including by Malcolm McMahon, the Archbishop of Liverpool, who declared that the healing was “absolutely beyond and above the powers of nature.”

Initially, the Catholic Church did not recognize Treynor’s healing as a miracle because they believed there wasn’t enough evidence of how severely the sailor had been ill or how much he had recovered after visiting Lourdes.

However, by 1926, evidence supporting the miracle was found. Among these was a document written by Dr. Auguste Vallé, who had been responsible for tracking official healings in Lourdes at the time. He examined Treynor and made a statement almost identical to McMahon’s: “The process of this extraordinary healing is absolutely not connected with the powers of nature and lies outside of them.

” Later, McMahon issued an official conclusion: “Considering all the medical evidence, the testimony of John Treynor’s faith, and his devotion to the Blessed Virgin, I am pleased to declare that the healing of John Treynor from a number of serious ailments should be recognized as a miracle, performed by the power of God through the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes.”

In the following years, fully healed, John Treynor started a coal delivery business and lived for many more years, passing away in 1943.

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