Case file · Apparition / miracle
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré's first cure
Tradition holds that in 1658 Louis Guimond, a settler with a bad back, was cured while laying stones for the first chapel of Sainte-Anne at Beaupré, beginning one of North America's great healing shrines.
1658 CE · 47.02, -70.93 · status: account
The account
Sailors saved from storms on the St. Lawrence added to its fame. Crutches left by pilgrims line the basilica's pillars; hundreds of thousands still visit each year.
The sceptical view
Cures are reported, not medically verified, and the 1658 story rests on later shrine histories.