

The Most Beautiful Day in Life (1907)
Original title: Le Plus beau jour de ma vie
Descriptions
While her girlfriends fervently follow the preparatory retreat for the first communion, Marie-Blanche, confined to bed by bronchitis, sees with anguish the approach of the big day. Will she die without knowing the great joy she has dreamed of since her very early childhood? No, she will take advantage of her mother's absence to put on her pretty white dress and, her body shaken by the big cough that sounds the death knell in her frail chest, she goes out into the street and she goes, supporting herself in the ripe. But, when she arrived in front of the catechism room, her strength betrayed her, and she collapsed in front of the chapel door. They take her home, shivering with fever. The doctor, called in haste, examines the little patient for a long time. Finally, it gives some hope. The child will be saved, provided she regularly takes the potion he prescribes. But Marie-Blanche does not want to take the potion. She fidgets and becomes feverish and ends up dozing off. The limits of things dissolve, she dreams. And here is Father Martin, the good priest who teaches her catechism, who advances in the radiance of the lights of the choir, towards the little communicants, prostrate around the holy table. The whole chapel is illuminated with whiteness. Marie-Blanche watches with ecstasy. Oh! approach a little, take one's part in the divine banquet! She holds out her greedy little hands. And here is the priest who advances towards her, pronounces the sacramental words, and gives her the holy host… The emotion is too strong for Marie-Blanche. She wakes up, holding in her hands the bowl whose contents she has just absorbed. The little visionary is healed, heaven has done a miracle in favor of her young ardent faith.
Source: Pathe Freres - Translated
While Marie's friends are preparing to make their first communion; she is home stuck sick in bed; anxiously awaiting the great day. She is thinking that if she should die, she will have missed out on one of childhood's greatest dreams. So she takes advantage of her mother's absence by trying on her white dress and then going off to practice. Upon reaching the church's steps, she passes out from fever. Luckily someone she knows comes by and carries her home. Things look grim for Marie, as the doctor says that her only hope for recovery is taking her prescription. Marie won't take her medicine and through a fever-dream she sees the abbot approaching her. In a blinding, white light she waits for communion and the priest just blesses her. In reality, things are looking worse. Suddenly, she awakes and then she decides she had better take her medicine, with hand still out for communion. Marie becomes well again and a miracle has passed.
Source: Susan Dalton