provisions had to be made for some of the pilgrims.[224] An associate for fifteen years remarked that he witnessed miracles virtually every week: “Often a paralytic would be cured, or one blind, or someone who had to be brought here on a stretcher.” Like some other healers we have noted (e.g., John Sung), Brother André himself was not immune to affliction. In his nineties, Brother André suffered considerable pain and noted that he could not cure himself.[225] The Medical Bureau established there considered many cases exaggerated or psychosomatic, but for others they lacked naturalistic
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