Start Here

This page is a short route into the archive for readers who want a few clear starting pages before wandering through the full collection. The pages below were chosen because the story is easier to picture and the source trail is fuller than average: dated witness reports, formal decrees, preserved relic records, medical review, laboratory publication, or early texts gathered in one place.

Use case

Best first route through the archive

This page is for readers who want a few easy entry pages before browsing the whole record.

Selection basis

Clear story plus fuller source trail

The featured pages were chosen for readable chronology, preserved sources, medical review, laboratory publication, or early-text concentration.

What is included

A cross-section of the archive

The shortlist mixes apparition, healing, object, and historical pages so a new reader can feel the whole archive quickly.

Companion tools

Source index, timeline, and map

Use the source index to audit references, the timeline to compare eras, and the map to move geographically.

Primary-source file

Archive tool Archive Source Index

Open the page-by-page citation trail behind the same miracle files listed here.

/research/sources/ Archive tool Archive Timeline

Compare the same pages across ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern eras.

/research/timeline/ Archive tool Miracle Map

Browse the documented cases geographically once you have the core shortlist in view.

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Choose your starting angle

If you want medical files first

Start with Bernadette Moriau and then move into the healing overview. This is the clearest route for readers who want diagnoses, review boards, and named recognition dates.

If you want crowd-witness cases first

Start with Fatima, then Kibeho, then Champion. This route is best for readers who want public events, dated witness scenes, and visible shrine continuity.

If you want objects and lab-linked cases first

Start with Lanciano and then compare it with the broader Eucharistic overview. This path works best if you want a concrete object, sanctuary continuity, and later examination history.

If you want ancient textual evidence first

Start with The Resurrection of Jesus and then compare it with Astronomical Signs at the Crucifixion. This route is for readers who want the earliest surviving texts and historical reconstruction.

If you are coming in fresh

• Start with one modern page and one older page rather than staying inside one category.
• Use the pages with the clearest “source excerpt” blocks first; they show the underlying record fastest.
• If a page still feels abstract, jump to the source index right away instead of guessing what the page is relying on.

Starting pages

Fatima

Open the file. Fixed apparition dates, a public prediction, large witness turnout, and next-day secular newspaper reporting.

Lourdes Apparitions

Open the file. A dated apparition sequence, a diocesan decree, and long-term continuity with the best-known healing shrine in the archive.

Bernadette Moriau

Open the file. A modern Lourdes cure file with named dates, institutional medical review, and formal recognition in 2018.

Lanciano

Open the file. A classical Eucharistic relic tradition with a preserved local sanctuary file and an indexed 1971 laboratory paper.

Resurrection of Jesus

Open the file. The clearest ancient-text entry page in the archive, centered on Paul, the Jerusalem contacts, and the earliest Christian writings.

Champion

Open the file. A dated nineteenth-century apparition file with long shrine continuity and a 2010 positive diocesan decree.

Kibeho

Open the file. A modern apparition file with living witnesses, a selective official judgment, and a clear staged investigation.

Guadalupe

Open the file. A good starting page if you want an apparition story, a physical object, and a long documentary history all in one place.

How to use this shortlist

• Start with one crowd-witness case, one medical-review case, one laboratory/relic case, and one ancient-text case rather than reading only one category.
• Use the metadata strip on each page to see the record type, status, and source base before diving into the narrative.
• Open the source index after any page that feels especially rich or especially thin; it helps to see exactly where the page is drawing from.
• Use the full archive after this shortlist, not before it.

Keep going from here

• Use the source index when you want to see where a page’s story and notes are coming from.
• Use the timeline when you want to compare strong files across ancient, medieval, and modern eras.
• Use the miracle map when you want to move geographically after you already know which kind of case you are looking for.