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Bernadette Moriau — Lourdes Cure (2008, recognized 2018) — France — 2008 / 2018
Sister Bernadette Moriau's recovery after a 2008 pilgrimage to Lourdes was recognized by Catholic authorities in 2018 as the 70th officially recognized miracle of Lourdes.
Read the Account →The Apparitions of Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun
Between May and October 1917, the Virgin Mary appeared six times to three shepherd children in Portugal. On October 13, as predicted months in advance, 70,000 witnesses — including atheists and secular journalists — saw the sun appear to dance and plunge toward the earth.
Read the Account → Eucharistic MiracleLanciano, Italy — 750 AD
A host and wine were preserved in Lanciano, Italy after an 8th-century Mass. In 1970, a professor of anatomy and histological chemistry analyzed them. He found human cardiac tissue and human blood — both type AB — with no preservatives and no scientific explanation for their state.
Read the Account → The ResurrectionThe Resurrection of Jesus
The central claim of Christianity: that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate around 30 AD, physically rose from death three days later and appeared to multiple individuals and groups before ascending. The earliest sources, major historical data points, and principal scholarly interpretations are summarized here.
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Abalaka Icon of the Mother of God (1636-1637)
Orthodox sources connect the Abalaka Icon in Siberia with a 1636 apparition tradition, a commissioned icon painted in 1637, and the reported healing of the paralytic Euthymius.
Read the Account → Eucharistic MiracleAmsterdam Host Miracle (1345)
According to the Amsterdam tradition, a consecrated Host thrown into a fire after a sick man vomited it was later found intact on March 15, 1345. The event became the foundation of the Heilige Stede devotion and the annual Silent Procession in Amsterdam.
Read the Account → Healing MiraclesHealing Miracles: Overview & Lourdes
Catholic authorities have formally recognized dozens of medically inexplicable cures. At Lourdes alone, the Medical Bureau has reviewed over 7,000 reported recoveries and officially recognized 70. This page explains the process and documents key cases.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleAnna Santaniello — Lourdes Cure (1952, recognized 2005)
Anna Santaniello's cure after a Lourdes pilgrimage in 1952 was officially recognized in 2005 as the 67th miracle of Lourdes.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition ClaimAssiut, Egypt (2000-2001)
In 2000 and 2001, large crowds gathered around St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox church and the nearby monastery area in Assiut, Egypt after reports of repeated appearances of the Virgin Mary accompanied by lights and doves.
Read the Account → Biblical AstronomyAstronomical Candidates for the Star of Bethlehem
Modern astronomy can reconstruct the sky around the probable years of Jesus' birth and test whether major conjunctions, planetary groupings, or a comet match Matthew's Star of Bethlehem. The evidence supports several real candidates, but not one universally agreed identification.
Read the Account → Biblical AstronomyAstronomical Signs at the Crucifixion
A documented astronomical question tied to Jesus' death: whether the reported darkness and the later 'moon to blood' language connect with a real eclipse visible from Jerusalem. Modern eclipse calculations strongly favor a partial lunar eclipse on April 3, 33 CE, not a solar eclipse.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleBernadette Moriau — Lourdes Cure (2008, recognized 2018)
Sister Bernadette Moriau's recovery after a 2008 pilgrimage to Lourdes was recognized by Catholic authorities in 2018 as the 70th officially recognized miracle of Lourdes.
Read the Account → Eucharistic MiracleBuenos Aires, Argentina — 1996
A discarded Host in Buenos Aires was found to have transformed. Samples were sent without explanation to a series of independent scientists. A forensic cardiologist at Columbia University identified it as living human heart muscle with actively moving white blood cells. He had no explanation.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleDanila Castelli — Lourdes Cure (1989, recognized 2013)
Danila Castelli's recovery after a 1989 Lourdes pilgrimage was officially recognized in 2013 as the 69th miracle of Lourdes.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleDelizia Cirolli — Bone Cancer Cure at Lourdes (1976, recognized 1989)
Delizia Cirolli's recovery after pilgrimage to Lourdes became the 65th officially recognized miracle of Lourdes in 1989.
Read the Account → Exorcisms & DeliveranceExorcisms & Deliverance - Overview
Major exorcism in Catholic practice is a formal rite of prayer used only with the permission of the diocesan bishop. This section documents major cases, their source record, and the setting in which they were carried out.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleFather John Hollowell — Claimed Healing at Lourdes (2022)
An Indiana Catholic priest diagnosed with oligodendroglioma (brain tumor) at the Mayo Clinic in 2020, treated with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, reports that his tumor disappeared following a solo pilgrimage to Lourdes in June 2022. The case has not been formally submitted to the Lourdes Medical Bureau.
Read the Account → Personal TestimonyFather John Hollowell — Prayer for Victims
In June 2018, an Indiana Catholic priest prayed to be allowed to suffer in reparation for clerical abuse victims. Seizure and spasm episodes later followed, and in February 2020 he was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the Mayo Clinic. He describes the cancer as an answer to that prayer.
Read the Account → Public Exorcist TestimonyFr. Chad Ripperger — Colorado Exorcist Testimony
Fr. Chad Ripperger is a Catholic priest and exorcist serving in the Archdiocese of Denver whose public interviews, books, and lecture archive document a large online record of exorcism and deliverance testimony.
Read the Account → Public Exorcist TestimonyFr. Dan Reehil — Nashville Exorcist Testimony
Fr. Dan Reehil is a Catholic priest, pastor, and exorcist for the Diocese of Nashville whose public interviews and radio work have made him a prominent contemporary source for exorcism and deliverance testimony.
Read the Account → Public Exorcist TestimonyFr. Vincent Lampert — Indianapolis Exorcist Testimony
Fr. Vincent Lampert is the long-serving exorcist of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis with extensive public interviews and archdiocesan reporting about exorcism ministry, training, and modern casework.
Read the Account → Personal TestimonyGabriel Castillo — Claimed Demonic Attack and Marian Deliverance
A Texas Catholic evangelist says that while praying the Rosary alone in his dormitory during college, a force pinned him to his bed, choked him, and left when he invoked the name of Mary. The account is preserved through later interviews, talks, and Catholic media appearances.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition ClaimGarabandal (1961–1965)
Between 1961 and 1965, four girls in San Sebastian de Garabandal, Spain claimed apparitions of St. Michael and the Virgin Mary. The case became famous for filmed ecstasies, backward walks, crowd scenes, and later interviews with Conchita Gonzalez, while the local diocese has not issued a positive recognition of the apparitions as supernatural.
Read the Account → Personal TestimonyGloria Polo Ortiz — Near-Death Experience from Lightning Strike
A Colombian dentist struck by lightning at the National University of Bogotá in 1995 says she underwent a near-death experience including a life review, purgatory, and encounters with Christ and Mary after surviving severe injuries.
Read the Account → Christian Deliverance CaseGottliebin Dittus / Möttlingen Deliverance (1841–1843)
In the Württemberg village of Möttlingen, pastor Johann Christoph Blumhardt accompanied Gottliebin Dittus through a two-year possession-and-healing crisis. Blumhardt's own report and later church memory preserve the case in public Christian deliverance history.
Read the Account → Personal TestimonyImmaculée Ilibagiza — Survival Through Prayer in the Rwandan Genocide
A Tutsi woman survived 91 days hidden in a 3-by-4-foot bathroom with seven others during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, during which her family was killed and her weight fell from 115 to 65 pounds. She credits sustained prayer as the source of her mental survival.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleJean-Pierre Bély — Lourdes Cure (1987, recognized 1999)
Jean-Pierre Bély's recovery after pilgrimage to Lourdes was recognized in 1999 as the 66th officially recognized miracle of Lourdes.
Read the Account → Canonization MiracleJohn Henry Newman Canonization Miracle (2013, approved 2019)
The canonization miracle attributed to John Henry Newman concerned the recovery of Melissa Villalobos in 2013 during pregnancy after she prayed for Newman’s intercession. The Oratories of England announced in 2019 that Rome had approved the miracle for canonization.
Read the Account → Canonization MiracleKathleen Evans — Mary MacKillop Healing (1993 case, recognized 2009)
Kathleen Evans of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, recovered from what was described as inoperable lung cancer with secondary brain tumors after prayers through Mary MacKillop's intercession. The Vatican recognized the healing in 2009 for MacKillop's canonization.
Read the Account → Eucharistic MiracleLanciano, Italy — 750 AD
A host and wine were preserved in Lanciano, Italy after an 8th-century Mass. In 1970, a professor of anatomy and histological chemistry analyzed them. He found human cardiac tissue and human blood — both type AB — with no preservatives and no scientific explanation for their state.
Read the Account → Eucharistic MiracleLegnica, Poland — 2013
On Christmas Day 2013 in Legnica, a dropped host was placed in water and over ten days transformed into a reddish substance. Forensic medicine departments at two independent Polish universities identified the material as human cardiac muscle with changes consistent with agony. Human DNA was confirmed. In 2016, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith responded favorably and authorized public veneration.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleMatheus Lins Vianna — Healing through Carlo Acutis' Intercession (2013, recognized 2020)
Matheus Lins Vianna, a Brazilian child suffering from annular pancreas and constant vomiting, was healed after relic veneration linked to Carlo Acutis in Campo Grande. The Vatican recognized the miracle in 2020 for Carlo Acutis' beatification.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition ClaimMedjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1981–present)
Beginning in June 1981, six young people in Medjugorje reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary. The site became one of the world’s largest Catholic pilgrimage destinations, and in 2024 the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a nihil obstat for the spiritual experience linked to Medjugorje while not declaring the reported apparitions supernatural.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleNohad El Shami - St. Charbel Healing (1993)
In 1993, Lebanese devotional sources reported that Nohad El Shami recovered from hemiplegia after a dream in which St. Charbel and St. Maroun operated on her neck. The story is closely associated with the shrine of Annaya and the 22nd-of-the-month pilgrimage practice.
Read the Account → Personal TestimoniesPersonal Testimonies — Overview
First-person accounts of events people describe as divine intervention, documented through memoirs, interviews, and public testimony.
Read the Account → Personal TestimonyMike Hoesch — Claimed Healing of Malignant Skin Tumor
An evangelical Protestant minister from Arizona says a malignant skin tumor diagnosed clinically around 2000 disappeared over several months in 2008 after a major shift in his understanding of divine healing. Publicly available sources do not include biopsy records or post-healing medical documentation.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Akita (1973–1981)
In Akita, Japan, Sr. Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa reported Marian messages in 1973 connected to a wooden statue that was said to bleed, sweat, and later weep 101 times. After years of investigation, the local bishop judged the events worthy of belief and authorized veneration within his diocese.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Banneux (1933)
From January 15 to March 2, 1933, Mariette Beco reported eight apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Banneux, Belgium, where Mary identified herself as the Virgin of the Poor. The apparitions were definitively recognized in 1949.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Beauraing (1932–1933)
At Beauraing, Belgium, five children reported 33 apparitions of the Virgin Mary between late 1932 and early 1933. The local bishop recognized the authenticity of the apparitions in 1949.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Betania (1976–1984)
At Finca Betania in Venezuela, Maria Esperanza Bianchini reported Marian apparitions beginning in 1976, and a large group of witnesses later reported seeing the Virgin Mary there in 1984. On November 21, 1987, Bishop Pio Bello Ricardo issued a pastoral instruction declaring the apparitions authentic and of supernatural character.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Champion (1859)
In October 1859, Adele Brise reported a Marian apparition in Champion, Wisconsin. In 2010 Bishop David Ricken approved the apparition as worthy of belief, making Champion the first approved Marian apparition site in the United States.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition ClaimOur Lady of China / Donglu (1900)
During the Boxer Rebellion, Catholics at Donglu in Hebei reported that a luminous woman identified as the Virgin Mary protected the village from attack. Later church and parish summaries connect Donglu with the history of the Our Lady of China devotion.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Gietrzwałd (1877)
In Gietrzwałd, Poland, two girls reported Marian apparitions in 1877 amid anti-Polish pressure and restrictions on Catholic religious life under Prussian rule. The local bishop formally recognized the supernatural character of the apparitions in 1977.
Read the Account → Marian Healing ShrineOur Lady of Good Health, Vailankanni
The Marian shrine at Vailankanni in Tamil Nadu is built around several apparition and rescue traditions: a milk-boy vision, the healing of a lame buttermilk boy, and the deliverance of Portuguese sailors from a storm. It became one of the great healing shrines of Asia.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition TraditionOur Lady of Good Success (Quito, Ecuador)
A long-venerated Marian apparition tradition centered on the Conceptionist convent in Quito, Ecuador and the visions attributed to Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres from 1594 onward. The devotion is tied to a revered statue, centuries of public veneration, and the 1991 canonical coronation and sanctuary decree.
Read the Account → Marian ApparitionOur Lady of Guadalupe
In December 1531, a recently converted Indigenous peasant named Juan Diego said he encountered the Virgin Mary four times on a hilltop near Mexico City. The image left on his cloak later became the center of one of the largest pilgrimage traditions in Christianity and centuries of examination followed.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Kibeho (1981–1989)
In Kibeho, Rwanda, several students reported Marian apparitions beginning in 1981. In 2001 Bishop Augustin Misago issued the definitive local judgment recognizing the authenticity of the apparitions of three visionaries.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Knock (1879)
On August 21, 1879, fifteen witnesses in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland watched a silent apparition of the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, and St. John the Evangelist on the south gable of their parish church for approximately two hours — while the ground beneath it stayed dry in heavy rain.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of L'Ile-Bouchard (1947)
In December 1947, four schoolgirls at L'Ile-Bouchard said the Virgin Mary appeared with the angel Gabriel inside Saint-Gilles church, urging prayer for France. On December 8, 2001, the Archbishop of Tours authorized public worship and pilgrimages to Notre-Dame de la Prière.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of La Salette (1846)
On September 19, 1846, two shepherd children in the French Alps reported seeing a luminous, weeping lady who gave a message calling people to repentance and reconciliation. After five years of investigation, the bishop of Grenoble recognized the apparition.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Laus (1664–1718)
Benoîte Rencurel reported Marian apparitions at Laus in the French Alps over a span of 54 years. In 2008 the bishop of Gap and Embrun officially recognized the supernatural character of the apparitions.
Read the Account → Marian ApparitionOur Lady of Lourdes (1858)
In 1858, Bernadette Soubirous reported 18 apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes, France. The local bishop recognized the apparitions in 1862, and Lourdes became one of the world's most intensively investigated healing shrines.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Pellevoisin (1876)
In 1876, Estelle Faguette reported 15 Marian apparitions at Pellevoisin, France, after a grave illness and sudden recovery. On August 30, 2024, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a nihil obstat encouraging Marian devotion at the shrine.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Pontmain (1871)
On January 17, 1871, during the Franco-Prussian War, four children in Pontmain reported seeing a luminous lady in the sky accompanied by a message of prayer and hope. The apparition was officially recognized in 1872.
Read the Account → Marian Shrine TraditionOur Lady of the Cape (1879–1888)
At Cap-de-la-Madeleine in Quebec, the Marian shrine now known as Our Lady of the Cape grew around two famous events: the 1879 ice bridge that allowed a church to be built and the 1888 'miracle of the eyes' seen in the statue of Mary.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition Tradition
Our Lady of Tre Fontane (1947)
On April 12, 1947, Bruno Cornacchiola and his children said they saw the Virgin Mary at Tre Fontane in Rome under the title 'Virgin of Revelation.' The Diocese of Rome now treats the site as a diocesan sanctuary, while also stating in its 2025 decree that the phenomenon remains under renewed study and discernment.
Read the Account → Marian ApparitionOur Lady of Zeitoun (1968–1971)
Between April 1968 and May 1971, a luminous figure identified as the Virgin Mary appeared repeatedly above a Coptic Orthodox church in Cairo, Egypt. The apparitions were witnessed by an estimated hundreds of thousands of people — Muslim and Christian, believer and skeptic — photographed by a staff photographer at Egypt's largest secular newspaper, and officially recognized by both the Coptic Orthodox patriarchate and the Egyptian government.
Read the Account → Historical Miracle TraditionPadre Pio Stigmata (1918–1968)
From 1918 until his death in 1968, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina was publicly associated with wounds corresponding to the stigmata of Christ. The public record includes decades of observation, ecclesiastical restrictions and permissions, and the later Vatican cause that preserved the case in official biography.
Read the Account → Shrine Healing ReportsReported Healings at Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine, Euclid
Public reporting around the National Shrine & Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in Euclid, Ohio preserves a named sight-restoration account and later child-healing reports associated with the shrine's Lourdes water and novena prayers.
Read the Account → Exorcism CaseRobbie Mannheim / St. Louis Exorcism (1949)
In 1949, Jesuit priests in St. Louis performed a major exorcism on a boy later known under pseudonyms such as Robbie Mannheim and Roland Doe. The primary public source most often cited is the diary of Fr. Raymond Bishop, alongside later Jesuit and university summaries.
Read the Account → Marian Apparition
Rue du Bac / Miraculous Medal (1830)
In 1830, Catherine Laboure of the Daughters of Charity reported Marian apparitions at Rue du Bac in Paris. The chapel sources say the medal associated with those visions spread rapidly through France and beyond after it was struck in 1832.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleSister Luigina Traverso — Lourdes Cure (1965, recognized 2012)
Sister Luigina Traverso's recovery from paralytic lumbar sciatica during a Lourdes pilgrimage in 1965 was officially recognized in 2012 as the 68th miracle of Lourdes.
Read the Account → Eucharistic MiracleSokółka, Poland — 2008
During a 2008 Mass in Sokółka, a dropped host was placed in water and over seven days transformed into what appeared to be cardiac tissue. Two pathomorphologists at the Medical University of Białystok identified the substance as human myocardium showing markers of pre-death agony, structurally interwoven with the bread substrate.
Read the Account → Healing TraditionSt. André Bessette Healing Tradition
Brother André Bessette (1845–1937), the doorkeeper of Notre-Dame College in Montreal and founder of Saint Joseph’s Oratory, became associated with a large public record of healings and answered prayers attributed to the intercession of St. Joseph. The Oratory and the Vatican both preserve that healing tradition as part of his sainthood cause.
Read the Account → Historical Miracle TraditionSt. Faustina Kowalska — Divine Mercy Devotion
In 1930s Poland, Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska recorded visions of Jesus and instructions tied to the Divine Mercy image, chaplet, feast, and Hour of Mercy. The public file is her Diary, the shrine continuity at Krakow-Lagiewniki, and the later Vatican acts that canonized her and spread the devotion through the Church.
Read the Account → Historical Miracle TraditionSt. Joseph of Cupertino Levitation Accounts
St. Joseph of Cupertino (1603–1663) is one of the most famous Christian saints associated with levitation. The modern public record is preserved mainly through the Church’s saintly biography tradition, which treats repeated episodes of elevation during prayer as part of his historical file.
Read the Account → Personal TestimonySt. Maria Goretti — Martyrdom, Canonization Miracles, and Her Killer's Reported Religious Change
An 11-year-old Italian girl was murdered by her attacker after refusing assault; she forgave him before dying. Her killer later reported a dream vision of her in prison and attended her canonization in 1950. Two miracles were formally verified in the Vatican's five-stage process. The dream rests on hagiographic transmission, not Serenelli's own extant writings.
Read the Account → Physical Artifact
Sudarium of Oviedo
The Cathedral of Oviedo preserves a bloodstained cloth venerated as the head cloth of Jesus. Unlike the Shroud of Turin, it bears no body image; the public file is built around its route tradition, cathedral record, and modern study summaries.
Read the Account → Physical Artifact
The Holy House of Loreto
The Pontifical Shrine of Loreto preserves the Holy House traditionally identified as the house of Mary from Nazareth. The shrine itself presents both the ancient angelic-translation tradition and a historical hypothesis that Christians transported the house during the Crusader era.
Read the Account → The IncorruptiblesThe Incorruptibles
Certain saints' bodies were found in unusual states of preservation after burial. This page surveys major cases, how Catholic sources describe them, and what kinds of records survive.
Read the Account → Incorruptible
St. Bernadette Soubirous
Bernadette Soubirous died at Nevers in 1879. The official Nevers sanctuary says that inspections of her body in 1909, 1919, and 1925 each found it intact, and her body remains enshrined there today.
Read the Account → IncorruptibleSt. Catherine Laboure
Catherine Laboure died in 1876 after spending decades in hidden service following the 1830 Rue du Bac apparitions. The official Miraculous Medal chapel says that when her tomb was opened in 1933, her body was found intact and transferred beneath an altar at Rue du Bac.
Read the Account → Historical Miracle TraditionSt. Herman of Alaska
Orthodox sources present St. Herman of Alaska as a missionary monk and wonderworker whose traditions of healings, protection, and intercession are centered on Kodiak and Spruce Island.
Read the Account → Physical ArtifactSt. Januarius Blood Liquefaction
Naples preserves ampoules traditionally said to contain the blood of the martyr St. Januarius. Their contents are publicly reported to liquefy during major feast-day rites.
Read the Account → Historical Miracle TraditionSt. Thorlak of Iceland
St. Thorlak Thórhallsson, bishop of Skálholt, became Iceland's great medieval miracle saint. After his death in 1193, numerous miracles were attributed to his intercession and devotion to him spread across Iceland.
Read the Account → Incorruptible TraditionSt. Vincent de Paul
The Maison Mere of the Congregation of the Mission in Paris preserves the remains of St. Vincent de Paul in a great silver reliquary above the main altar. The official chapel description notes that the visible face and hands are wax, while the saint's remains are preserved within the shrine.
Read the Account → Marian ApparitionThe Apparitions of Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun
Between May and October 1917, the Virgin Mary appeared six times to three shepherd children in Portugal. On October 13, as predicted months in advance, 70,000 witnesses — including atheists and secular journalists — saw the sun appear to dance and plunge toward the earth.
Read the Account → Eucharistic MiracleThe Eucharistic Miracle of Alatri (1228)
In Alatri, Italy, a consecrated Host hidden after a sacrilegious theft was reported to have become visible flesh. The Diocese of Anagni-Alatri continues to venerate the relic and points to Pope Gregory IX's bull Fraternitatis tuae as the foundational recognition.
Read the Account → Eucharistic Miracle
The Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena-Orvieto (1263)
In 1263, a priest celebrating Mass in Bolsena reportedly saw blood issue from the consecrated Host and stain the corporal. The relic was taken to Orvieto, where official cathedral sources connect it with Corpus Christi devotion and the Chapel of the Corporal.
Read the Account → Eucharistic MiracleThe Eucharistic Miracle of Santarem (13th century)
In Santarem, Portugal, a consecrated Host reportedly began to bleed after being removed from Mass for sacrilegious purposes. The relic has been venerated for centuries and remains at the Sanctuary of the Most Holy Miracle of Santarem.
Read the Account → Eucharistic Miracle
The Eucharistic Miracle of Seefeld (1384)
At Seefeld in Tyrol, a knight demanding a larger Host than the common people reportedly saw the Host turn blood-red, while the stone at the altar sank beneath him. The event made St. Oswald's church one of Tyrol's great pilgrimage sites.
Read the Account → Eucharistic MiracleThe Eucharistic Miracle of Siena (1730)
In 1730, consecrated Hosts stolen from the Basilica of San Francesco in Siena were recovered days later and have been venerated ever since as incorrupt. The Archdiocese of Siena presents their preservation as a permanent Eucharistic miracle.
Read the Account → Eucharistic MiracleThe Eucharistic Miracle of Walldürn (c. 1330)
In Walldürn, Germany, a priest reportedly spilled the consecrated chalice, and the corporal was said to bear an image of the Crucified Christ and multiple crowned heads. The relic became the center of one of Germany's great Holy Blood pilgrimages.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleThe Miracle of Calanda (1640)
In 1640, Miguel Juan Pellicer of Calanda, Spain reportedly awoke with a leg that had previously been amputated restored. The Zaragoza cathedral history links the claim to a 1640-1641 canonical process.
Read the Account → The ResurrectionThe Resurrection of Jesus
The central claim of Christianity: that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate around 30 AD, physically rose from death three days later and appeared to multiple individuals and groups before ascending. The earliest sources, major historical data points, and principal scholarly interpretations are summarized here.
Read the Account → Physical Artifact
The Shroud of Turin
A 14-foot linen cloth bearing the image of a crucified man. Thirty-three scientists spent five days running every available test on it in 1978. They could not explain how the image was formed. The blood is real. The wounds are consistent with Roman crucifixion. The image mechanism remains unknown.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleValeria Valverde — Healing through Carlo Acutis' Intercession (2022, recognized 2024)
Valeria Valverde, a Costa Rican student in Florence, suffered catastrophic head trauma after a bicycle crash in July 2022. After her mother prayed at Carlo Acutis' tomb in Assisi, her recovery was recognized by the Vatican in 2024 as the miracle for Carlo's canonization.
Read the Account → Healing MiracleVittorio Micheli — Sarcoma Cure at Lourdes (1963, recognized 1976)
Vittorio Micheli's recovery from a destructive pelvic sarcoma after a Lourdes pilgrimage was later discussed in medical literature and recognized by Catholic authorities in 1976 as a Lourdes miracle.
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