TRUE SCIENCE DOES NOT FEAR TRUTH

Nobel Prize and Atheist Converted To Catholic Faith After Witnessing Miracle At Lourdes A Nobel Prize–winning doctor, once an atheist and outspoken skeptic, converted to Christianity after witnessing miracles at Lourdes. Dr. Alexis Carrel, Nobel laureate in Medicine, went to Lourdes in 1902 not as a pilgrim, but to expose it as a fraud. While there, he examined Marie Bailly, a woman dying of advanced tuberculous peritonitis. Other physicians agreed she would soon die. After water from the Grotto was poured over her abdomen, Carrel watched in disbelief as the swelling vanished within minutes, her pulse normalized, and her strength returned. He carefully documented the case and had her monitored for months. She remained healed, later joining the Sisters of Charity. Carrel later witnessed another instantaneous cure, this time of a blind child. Unable to deny what he saw, he embraced the faith he once rejected—at the cost of his standing among atheist peers. Lourdes taught him that true science does not fear truth, and that God is not limited by human reason.