Our Lady of La Salette is the title bestowed on the Virgin Mary after her appearances to young children at La Salette France in the 1840’s.
Through her intercession, a Visitandine experienced a miraculous cure, which I shared here. Our Lady of La Salette Cured a Visitandine | Visitation Spirit
Now I share the story of a Visitation student in Boarding school who was also cured in a similar way.
Here is the story:
Mlle. Lauzur, of St. Cerè, aged 18, was placed at the pension of the Convent of the Visitation at Valence. From her childhood to her 13th year, her eyes were affected from ophthalmia. The disorder then disappeared, but from their defectiveness and weakness, she still required the use of a pair of spectacles. On the 17th of April, 1852, this young lady lost the entire use, first of one eye, then of the other, on the same day, and was reduced to such a total blindness, that she became insensible to the light even of the sun. Her physician pronounced it to be a case of amaurosis, and that both her eyes were completely paralysed.
After every remedy which the science of medicine could apply had been tried, without the least effect, she herself proposed a pilgrimage to La Salette. The young lady resolved in her piety to walk the whole of the way from Valence, and she set out in company with, and under the guidance of, Sister Mary Justine, a member of the community. She travelled on foot the whole way, employing her heart in prayer; and from Corps, on the morning of the 1st of July, she made the entire ascent to the mountain, still on foot. She reached the sanctuary wet to the skin from the heavy rain, and covered with perspiration. She hoped to obtain her restoration on the following day, which was the Feast of the Visitation of Our Lady.
She at once hastened to the Chapel, and as she entered she exclaimed, “How good it is to be here!” A quarter of an hour afterwards Father Sibillat, one of the missioners, gave her the holy communion, on receiving which her sight instantaneously returned. After a few minutes of emotion, in which she remained transfixed in her position, she exclaimed: “I see! I see!” After which she remained intensely absorbed in contemplation.
Meantime Mass was said, and after it was finished, it required the authority of Father Sibillat, joined to the entreaties of Sr. Mary Justine, to induce her to return from her absorbed devotion, and to show the pilgrims who filled the chapel what God had done for her through the intercession of Mary. Her sight not only remained perfectly good, but she very soon found that her spectacles had become an embarrassment rather than a service, and she ceased to use them.
This cure is attested by the physician of Mlle. Lauzur, who calls it miraculous, by fifty-five witnesses, and also by all the community at Valence, and by all her fellowpupils. The documents are legalized by the Bishop of Valence.
Source:
The Holy Mountain of La Salette: A Pilgrimage of the Year 1854
By William Bernard Ullathorne (abp. of Cabasa.)