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- The 1917 Miracle of the Sun. In 1917, children in a Portuguese village returned home from shepherding and encountered an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
- The Star of Bethlehem. The Star of Bethlehem helped lead the Magi to Christ and is considered a miracle in all sects of Christianity, including Catholicism.
- Our Lady Of Lourdes and the Healing Water. In 1858 in Lourdes, France, 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous lived in an abandoned prison with her family. On February 11, when she went out with her sister and friend to collect firewood, Bernadette lagged behind because of her asthma.
- Therese Neumann’s Stigmata. Therese Neumann, born in Germany in 1898, was reported to be a healer and a stigmatic, someone who bears scars or wounds in locations that correspond with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
- Bloodstained Cloths
- A Bright Light
- The Face of The Christ Child
- Parting The Waters
- The Miracle of Mass
In 1263, a German priest known as Peter of Prague was struggling with the doctrine of transubstantiation. While he was saying Mass in Bolseno, Italy, blood began to stream out of the host and onto the corporal at the moment of consecration. This was reported to and investigated by Pope Urban IV, who concluded that the miracle was real. The bloodsta...
With some eucharistic miracles, the host emits a bright light. In 1247, for instance, a woman in Santarem, Portugal, was concerned about her husband’s faithfulness. She went to a sorceress, who promised the woman that her husband would return to his loving ways if the wife would bring a consecrated host back to the sorceress. The woman agreed. At M...
In some eucharistic miracles, an image appears on the host. The miracle of Eten, Peru, for instance, began on June 2, 1649. That night, as Fr. Jèrome Silva was about to replace the monstrance in the tabernacle, he saw in the host the image of a child with thick brown curls that fell to his shoulders. He held the host up to show the image to those p...
A totally different type of eucharistic miracle was recorded by St. Zosimus of Palestine in the sixth century. This miracle concerns St. Mary of Egypt, who left her parents at the age of twelve and became a prostitute. Seventeen years later, she found herself in Palestine. On the feast day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Mary went to the churc...
The Real Presence Association is currently translating reports of 120 Vatican-approved miracles from Italian into English. The stories of these miracles will be available at www.therealpresence.org. Faith, of course, should not be based on miracles alone. Several of the recorded miracles are very old, and it may be possible to dismiss them. There i...
- The Miracle of the Sun. The Miracle of the Sun is an alleged miraculous event witnessed by as many as 100,000 people on 13 October 1917 in the Cova da Iria fields near Fátima, Portugal.
- The Miracle of Lanciano 700 AD. In the city of Lanciano, Italy, around A.D. 700, a Basilian monk-priest was assigned to celebrate the Eucharistic sacrifice in the Latin Rite in the small Church of St.Legontian.
- Padre Pio (St Pio of Pietrelcina) 1887 – 1968. Francesco Forgione, later known as Padre Pio, canonized as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, was an Italian Roman Catholic Capuchin priest who is now venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
- Tilma of Juan Diego 1474 – 1548. Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin was an indigenous Mexican who reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531.
May 23, 2024 · A vision of Jesus – or just some burnt bread? It will now be much harder for a Catholic apparition to be declared ‘supernatural’. Here’s why.
The Catholic Church officially recognized both miracles as authentic. However, a Eucharistic miracle more commonly reported is that of the Bleeding Host, where blood starts to trickle from a consecrated host, the bread consecrated during Mass.
Miracle CityYearCountrySummaryBuenos Aires1992-1994-1996ArgentinaBleeding HostFiecht1310AustriaWine turns into blood boils overflows ...Seefeld1384AustriaEarthquake at same time as bleeding hostWeiten-Raxendorf1411AustriaGlowing HostJul 9, 2013 · The former pope's path to sainthood is almost complete, with the Vatican recently confirming that he performed two miracles. Now all that's left is the official canonization ceremony, which has...
The Gospels describe a number of miracles that Jesus performed as proofs of His divinity: healings, exorcisms, resurrections, control over nature, and forgiveness of sins. All of these proved Christ's divine identity in the Jewish worldview — that He had powers, including over suffering, sin, and death, that no purely human person could have.
