At the BBC, Professor Jaclyn Dufflin (a self-described atheist) discusses her research into the Vatican’s investigation of alleged medical miracles, including her own role in the investigation surrounding the canonization of Marie-Marguerite d’Youville.
“Suddenly, I realized with amazement that my medical work would reside in the Vatican archives. In that same instant, the historian in me wondered, what were all the other miracles that had been used for canonizations past? Were they healings too? What diseases were cured? Was medical science involved in the past as much as it is now? What did the doctor witnesses do and say”
