Case file · Apparition / miracle
Brother André and Saint Joseph's Oratory
André Bessette, a doorman at a Montreal college, built a small chapel to Saint Joseph on Mount Royal in 1904; thousands of reported cures made it the vast Oratory.
1904 CE · 45.49, -73.62 · status: disputed
The account
He rubbed the sick with oil from a lamp before the saint's statue and insisted that Joseph, not he, healed them. Over a million people filed past his coffin in 1937. He was canonized in 2010.
The sceptical view
Physicians at the time accused him of quackery; reported cures were never systematically documented.