More than a thousand people from the archdiocese of Liverpool headed to Lourdes this week, one hundred years since the first diocesan pilgrimage left Lime Street station on 21 July 1923. The miracle of Lourdes lies in everyday stories of kindness, sacrifice and perseverance but, just occasionally, there’s an abrupt and inexplicable medical cure, and perhaps the one best known to English Catholics is the case of Jack Traynor, one of the first Liverpool pilgrims. Terry Swan describes what happened in Jack Traynor’s Lourdes Cure, available on Kindle.