Miracle cure of John Traynor a century ago

The BBC getting into the Christmas spirit perhaps.

The 'miracle' that enthralled a city 100 years ago

When the train carrying John Traynor pulled into Liverpool Lime Street Station one summer's day in 1923, his wife fought through the crowds to find several other women had already turned up claiming to be his spouse.

The clamour at his arrival was worthy of his fellow Liverpudlians The Beatles, who were not yet even born.

But Traynor was no music hall star or silent movie icon: he was a frail former sailor, paralysed, epileptic and doubly incontinent.

Or at least he had been before he had left his home city a few days before.

The archbishop declared said: "Given the weight of medical evidence, the testimony to the faith of John Traynor and his devotion to Our Blessed Lady, it is with great joy that I declare that the cure of John Traynor, from multiple serious medical conditions, is to be recognised as a miracle wrought by the power of God through the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes.