Sister Bernadette Moriau, of the Franciscan Oblates of the Sacred Heart, was a French nun who from 1980 suffered from cauda equina syndrome — a progressive neurological condition that had left her with paralysis of the left foot and lower spine, chronic intractable pain controlled only by morphine, and dependence on a wheelchair and orthotic brace. She had undergone four spinal operations; nothing had helped.
She made the pilgrimage to Lourdes in July 2008 for the 150th anniversary of the apparitions, with no expectation of cure. On the evening of July 11, 2008, returning to her room from the Blessed Sacrament procession, she felt a sudden warmth and 'a complete relaxation' in her body. She removed her brace; her foot, paralysed for nearly three decades, returned to normal. She walked, then ran. By the next day she had stopped all morphine without withdrawal.
Over the following ten years the Lourdes Medical Bureau and the International Medical Committee of Lourdes examined her repeatedly. The cure was found instantaneous, complete, lasting, and medically inexplicable. On February 11, 2018 — the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes — the Bishop of Beauvais formally recognised it as the 70th miraculous Lourdes cure.