Miracles of the Saints

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I wanted to start a thread here that discusses the miracles of the saints.

Who is your favorite saint? List a miracle associated with him or her.

Example…here is the story pasted below about the miracle attributed to Blessed John Paul II that clears him for sainthood by Pope Francis -

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, confirmed that the miracle that brought John Paul to the ranks of sainthood concerned a Costa Rican woman.

The Spanish Catholic newspaper La Razon has identified her as Floribeth Mora, and said she suffered from a cerebral aneurism that was inexplicably cured on May 1, 2011 – the day of John Paul’s beatification, when 1.5 million people filled St. Peter’s Square to honor the beloved Polish pontiff.

In a series of reports late last month, La Razon reported that Mora awoke with debilitating head pain on April 8 and went to the hospital, where her condition worsened to the point that she was sent home with only a month to live.

Her family prayed to John Paul, and the aneurism disappeared.

La Razon quoted her doctor, Dr. Alejandro Vargas, who said: “It surprised me a lot that the aneurism disappeared, I can’t explain it based on science.”
 
St Anthony of Padua is known for being the saint of miracles.

He is known for doing numerous miracles I can’t remember any of them at the moment aside of the baby Jesus appearing to him
 
Saint Dymphna is known as the patroness of those afflicted with mental illness. At her shine in Gheel, Belgium, many that suffer from various mental illness and afflictions come from all over to be healed. Even asking for her intercession has been known to heal.
 
Here is a miracle attributed to St. Gemma Galgani -

The third miracle that the Catholic Church investigated before making Gemma a saint involved a farmer who had an ulcerous tumor on his leg that had grown so large that it prevented him from walking. The man’s daughter used a relic of Gemma to make the sign of the cross over her father’s tumor and pray for his healing. By the next day, the tumor had disappeared and the skin on the man’s leg had healed back to its normal state.
 
Here is a miracle involving St. Thomas Aquianas, pasted below. These aren’t easy to find unless someone knows of a better resource/link where the miracles are listed.

*The most famous miracle of Thomas’ life happened while he was kneeling before a crucifix (a statue of Jesus Christ on the cross). As Thomas prayed and stared at the crucifix, it glowed with light and Jesus came alive on it, Thomas later reported. Then Jesus said to Thomas: “You have written well of me, Thomas. What reward would you desire?” and Thomas replied: “Nothing, Lord. I’m just doing it for You.”

When Thomas’ brothers in his religious order came into the chapel, they witnessed Thomas levitating – miraculously suspended in the air while caught up in an intense spiritual experience. Thomas returned to the ground when it was over and told the brothers about what had happened.*
 
St. Bernadette of Lourdes greatest miracle was identifying the beautiful Lady she was seeing
as The Immaculate Conception. Bernadette, being an uneducated peasant girl, had no idea
what these words meant and had to repeat them over and over (in order not to forget them) as she went to tell her pastor that the Lady had finally given her name.

Subsequent investigation revealed that nobody, not her parents, not her very intelligent Aunt
Bernarde (the real head of her family), her parish priests, or any of the nuns at her school had
ever said anything about The Immaculate Conception to her. Since Bernadette could not
possibly have made up this heavy duty theological expression, (one theologian said that,
“It would have been beyond Bernadette’s abilities”) she could only have gotten it from one
place, the Virgin Mary Herself.
 
The first thing that the Bible teaches is that every believer in Christ is a saint. He/she doesnt have to be dead and perform some miracles to be called a saint.

Ephesians 1
King James Version (KJV)

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Ephesians 1
New International Version (NIV)

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,

To God’s holy people in Ephesus,[a] the faithful in Christ Jesus:

saint and holy has the same meaning when u r referring to a believer in Jesus. those people were not dead yet to be called as saints or holy people.

1 Peter 1:16
New International Version
for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
 
To be officially a saint in the Catholic Church, there is a long process, which can take
years, before a person is canonized (made a saint by the church). Bernadette, for instance,
died in April, 1879, but wasn’t canonized until December 8th (Feast of the Immaculate
Coneption), 1933. They exhumed her body two or three times and found no signs of
corruption. A person called “The Devil’s Advocate” has to review the person’s life for
at least two miracles and signs of a virtuous life.
 
Mr William I know everything what is the process of becoming a saint in cathlolic church because I have been a catholic for 23 years since my childhood coz I was born into it. Now I have changed actually its Jesus who has changed me and shown me the truth and it has set me free the same way as Jesus himself promised in John 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." I am not bound by false traditions and rules of this church anymore, im a free son of God. Devil’s advocate actually sounds proper as they really devil’s advocates Mark 7:7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ Its time you wake up coz God’s judgement is coming soon on the false believers and also the unbelievers. Come Lord Jesus
 
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Mr William I know everything what is the process of becoming a saint in cathlolic church because I have been a catholic for 23 years since my childhood coz I was born into it. Now I have changed actually its Jesus who has changed me and shown me the truth and it has set me free the same way as Jesus himself promised in John 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." I am not bound by false traditions and rules of this church anymore, im a free son of God. Devil’s advocate actually sounds proper as they really devil’s advocates Mark 7:7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ Its time you wake up coz God’s judgement is coming soon on the false believers and also the unbelievers. Come Lord Jesus
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Trolling should be a crime. Keep reading my friend. Try a Bible that includes all the books and maybe apply your quote from St. Mark’s gospel to the heresies of Protestantism. Martin Luther was a man who established a religion. Our Lord established the Catholic Church. You do the math.

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Saint Blaise is known as Patron of Throat Ailments. He was a bishop who was martyred in the early 4th century. According to tradition, Blaise was put in prison where he ministered to fellow prisoners. One day he saved a child who was choking to death on a fish bone and this led to the custom of blessing throats on his feast day, Feb. 3rd. He was martyred in 316.
 
Here is a miracle attributed to Saint Faustina Kowalska of Poland (1905 - 1938):

The formal beatification of Faustina involved the case of Maureen Digan of Massachusetts.[50] In March 1981 Digan reported a healing, while praying at the tomb of Faustina.[31] Digan had suffered from Lymphedema (a disease which causes significant swelling due to fluid retention) for decades, and had undergone 10 operations, including a leg amputation. Digan reported that while praying at Faustina’s tomb, she heard a voice saying “ask for my help and I will help you” and her constant pain stopped. After 2 days Digan reported that her shoe became too large for her because her body stopped undue liquid retention.[51] Upon her return to the United States, five Boston area physicians stated that she was healed (with no explanation), and the case was declared miraculous by the Vatican in 1992 based on the additional testimony of over twenty witnesses about her prior condition.
 
Aside from Our Lady, my favorite saint is St. Bernadette, the patron against sickness. She was beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1925 for these two miracles:
A youth of seventeen, Henri Boisselet, attacked in November 1913 by peritoneal tuberculosis [Bernadette herself suffered from tuberculosis during her life, of the lung and of the knee] [He] had received the Last Sacraments. A novena to Bernadette was begun, for him and with him, and was due to end on December 8th. On that very day he was instantaneously and completely cured. Passed as fit for military service during the 1914-1918 war, he was drafted to the front, where he was later taken prisoner. After thirty-two months of captivity in Germany, he returned home still in sound health.
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Sister Marie-Mélanie Meyer, of the Sisters of Providence of Ribeauvillé, was infirmarian in the Sacred Heart Convent in Moulins. In 1910, when she was thirty years of age, acute pains and frequent vomiting revealed a gastric ulcer. Soon she became incapable of taking any nourishment, was reduced to extreme weakness, and near to death. She vowed a pilgrimage to Bernadette’s tomb, [and] on the journey from Moulins to Nevers she suffered intense pain. Once in the little chapel of St Joseph she summoned up strength to prostrate herself on the tombstone and then to remain there in prayer, now on her knees, now seated, for an hour. Suddenly her pains disappeared. Seized with a violent hunger she took a meal without any difficulty. She felt her strength returning already, and the return journey to Moulins was accomplished without fatigue or suffering. The next day Sister Marie-Mélanie returned to normal life and resumed her post.
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The doctors’ certificates and the statements of the witnesses were approved by the Sacred Congregation of Rites, and on June 14th, 1925, Pope Pius XI declared her Blessed. Eight years thereafter (on December 8th, 1933, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception), he declared her a Saint:
…] We define and declare the Blessed Marie-Bernarde Soubirous a Saint, and we enroll her in the Catalog of Saints, ordaining that her memory shall be piously celebrated in the Universal Church on April 16th each year, the day of her birth in Heaven. …]
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@ Immacolata

Thanks for sharing. I had no idea novenas could be that powerful of a prayer! Your accounts of St. Bernadette are exactly the ones I am looking for in this thread.

Here is one I recently came across about Mother Maria Theresia Bonzel…
The Vatican is calling a young boy’s speedy recovery from a mysterious illness nothing short of a miracle.

Pope Francis credited Mother Theresia Bonzel, a German nun who lived 100 years ago, for intervening from beyond the grave to help cure the Colorado Springs boy. Before the March 27 announcement, the Catholic church spent years trying to confirm two things: that the miracle was both spontaneous and complete.

In 1998, a four-year-old named Luke Burgie fell severely ill with a gastrointestinal condition that left his doctors searching for answers. Burgie had eight to 10 violent bouts of diarrhea every day for around six months, his mom Jan Burgie told the New York Daily News.
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“His doctors tried different antibiotics, diets and quite a few tests," Jan said. “But they couldn’t figure out what was wrong.”
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Luke dropped out of preschool and his little body continued to waste away. When the doctors began suspecting cancer, Luke’s mom, a devout Catholic, asked two nuns to pray over her son.
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The two sisters who answered her plea were Sister Margaret Mary Preister and the late Sister Evangeline Spenner. Both were sisters from the order that Bonzel founded, the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration. The nuns prayed a novena, a nine-day vigil asking Bonzel to intervene on Luke’s behalf.

As soon as they wrapped up, on Feb 22, 1999, Luke got up for breakfast and told his mom that his tummy didn’t hurt anymore. This was a child who would have a bad stomachache after every meal, his mom said. The sickness never returned.

“I knew immediately that it was a miracle,” Jan said.
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nydailynews.com/news/national/vatican-confirms-colorado-boy-healed-thanks-miracle-article-1.1318597
 
One of the miracles of St Mary of the Cross (MacKillop) of Austrailia:
In 1993 Kathleen Evans was cured of terminal cancer at the age of 49. Her cure was recognised as Mary MacKillop’s second miracle. Last year, Mary became Australia’s first saint, taking her place among the saints of the Universal Church to become St Mary of the Cross.
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After being diagnosed with lung cancer, which had spread to her brain, Kathleen was given only two months to live. With no medical intervention possible she turned instead to Mary MacKillop and to prayer.

Within days of a novena being said on her behalf by the Josephite Sisters and with a picture and relic of Mary MacKillop attached to her night gown, Kathleen began to regain her strength and eventually was miraculously cleared of cancer.

Now, 18 years later, Australia has its first saint and Kathleen, from Newcastle in New South Wales, is here to tell the story of this miracle. While in Melbourne with her husband Barry recently, Kathleen spoke to Kairos Catholic Journal’s Edwina Hall.
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adriansharp.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/one-of-the-miracles-of-st-mary-of-the-cross-mackillop/
 
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