Well-Attested Miracles in the Church

[Gia_B]

Liquefied blood of St. J (forgot his name)

I believe you are looking for St. Januarius.

 

[catholic1seeks]

The Holy Fire at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in JerusLem every Pascha.
The descent of a cloud over Mt Tabor on the feast day of the Transfiguration of our Lord.
The reversal of water flow in the Jordan when the bishop throws the cross in the waters on the feast day of Epiphany.

These all occur every year when the Orthodox celebrate these feast days, though they are not well known outside of the Orthodox Church.

However, you were probably after miracles in the Catholic Church, not the Orthodox Church

No, Orthodox miracles would qualify as well. Any miracle that affirms God’s existence and the Christian faith, especially apostolic faiths!

Miracles do not belong to one church, for God loves everyone. There are plenty in the CC as I’m sure there are in the OC and even Protestant churches.

 

[catholic1seeks]

What is miraculous about “incorrupt” bodies.
There’s every liklihood its simply a rare phenomenon of nature found in a variety of cultures, religions and times.
You do realise that the alleged incorrupt bodies of Catholic saints you speak of are not perfectly so and have been aided by artifice as well.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/The_Mumified_Munk.jpg

YIKES! Didn’t mean to hit your funny bone But most Catholics who talk about these things consider incorrupt bodies of saints to be genuine miraculous phenomenon.

 

[JoseFragoso96]

Hey sorry for bringing up an old thread. I remember in Confirmation class being told about the time a saint tried to prove to someone who didn’t believe in the Eucharist. So what they did was they got a donkey and starved it for either 3 days or a week, I forget. Then they saint brought before it the Eucharist to see if out of starvation it would eat it. According to the story, the donkey genuflected and worshipped the Eucharist.

Another one has been the many times the Eucharist has become flesh or wine has turned to blood. Most recent was probably in 2013 down in Mexico, I saw it on the news. Not sure if still under Church investigation.

Also the handful of saints that have carried the stigmata.

 

[Mike_Dye]

I’m the guy that would prefer the Church had not defined the criteria for Papal infallibility. The Church got by quite well for eighteen centuries without it. Now we have Catholics who somehow think they are only obliged to accept “infallible” doctrine.

Silly Catholics…They probably believed Jesus when He told Peter and the Apostles, “What you bind on Earth will be bound in Heaven and what you loose on Earth will be loosed in Heaven”. They are probably not enlightened enough yet to know that we can pick and choose what we want to accept and what we want to reject.

 

[simspt]

What are some miracles that have occurred throughout the history of the Church that are genuine, document, or even just popular? --Or perhaps not well known? I’m thinking anything supernatural, really.

One of the best ways to bolster the claims of Christianity and the Church, as well as re-affirm one’s faith and perhaps even convince a non-believer, is looking into the miracles that are on the Church’s record.

• The shroud
• Our Lady of Guadalupe tilma
• Apparitions at Fatima & Lourdes
• Eucharistic miracles
• Liquefied blood of St. J (forgot his name)
• Incorrupt bodies

Anything else? Or specific examples of these? The incorrupt bodies have always intrigued me, but I always feel a little doubt with them because none of them seem to be completely incorrupt. And I always have this feeling that some of them are better preserved for the sake of modern display.

Any links or general info would be great!

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