Anna Browse Healed of Chronic Disease Upon Baptism at St. Malo

Anna Browse, who had suffered for years from a disease that defied medical treatment, was baptized in a cold bay near Chateau du Briond on a very cold day in 1849. Despite warnings from friends that the cold water would kill her, she was revived by the spirit immediately upon baptism, and her long-standing ailment was completely eradicated, with her health restored to such an extent that her healthy bloom was noticeable to all.

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

The Sunday I baptized Miss Anna Browse, being very cold, all her friends said, that it would cost her life, but her answer was, if I lose my life in serving God by obeying his counsel in being baptized for the remission of my sins, I cannot lose it in a better cause. At ten a.m. she entered the water with me in the romantic bay near Chateau du Briond, before the town of St. Malo. The parties who witnessed the baptism, lifted their hands and said Mon Dieu; but instead of the death, her neighbours spoke of, she was revived by the spirit of the Almighty, and the disease that had preyed upon her constitution for years, and baffled the power of the physician, was completely eradicated. The pallid cheek from that moment showed the healthy bloom of youth, so much so that all congratulated her, and the report circulated that a ducking in the sea on such a cold morning was a sure cure, but our sister is determined to give God the glory.