Religion: Miracle No. 55?

The candidate for official recognition as the subject of the ssth miraculous cure to be certified at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, France, works as hotel manager of the New Venture public house in Kernel Hempsted, Hertfordshire. "My boss was a little scared about me at first," he said last week. "But now I'm working 12 hours a day."

Joseph de Borse-Day, 49, was a chef at The Bell in the fall of 1955 when he suddenly began losing weight—14 Ibs. in one week, followed by a serious hemorrhage. Surgeons removed a cancer-ridden right lung and several cancerous glands along...

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