How true were miracles associated with early saints?

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Reuben_J said:
Perhaps posters here would like to share some thought on this.

For example, St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, 213-270, ‘at one time he reportedly stopped the flooding Lycus, and at another, he moved a mountain’.

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I’d have to know what mountain and where he moved it from and to–or it’s probably folklore. I think one of the reasons the church today moves so slow in declarations of sainthood is just some of this stuff. If a person lived a seemingly holy life and was personally popular, the church often responded by declaring him or her a saint to pacify the masses.👍
 
Personally I thought some of the purported miracles may be just folklore especially when it came to something as big as moving mountain. In any case, mountain would not disappear and if it really happened, surely we can point to it today, “that is the mountain the saint moved.”

Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against saints with miracle, in fact to the contrary; I just want to be sure that I am not stating something that might not be factual (in talking about the subject).

What about St. Patrick banishing snakes from Ireland? What about Padre Pio’s ability to bilocate? The latter was more recent.
 
I believe they led saintly lives and serve as an example of Christ-likeness. Most saints were martyrs, therefore not needing an affirmation of some type of miracle associated with their life. Others like St. Patrick, they just went above and beyond what we would consider today to reach the lost with the gospel or service to other people.

St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, 213-270, or St. Gregory the Wonderworker, a source for info
oca.org/saints/lives/2013/11/17/103315-st-gregory-the-wonderworker-of-neocaesarea

Is credited for moving a hill, somewhere down the line it turned into a mountain 😉
 
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