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Amédée Baillot de Guerville

By his own account, de Guerville experienced a near miraculous recovery from his tuberculosis while a patient at the pioneering Nordach Clinic for consumptives in Germany's Black Forest region.

Annus mirabilis

In fact, the year was beset by great calamity for England (including the Great Fire of London), but Dryden chose to interpret the absence of greater disaster as miraculous intervention by God, as "666" is the Number of the Beast and the year 1666 was expected by some to be particularly disastrous.

Anthonians

A congregation founded by a certain Gaston of Dauphiné (c. 1095) and his son, in thanksgiving for miraculous relief from "St. Anthony's fire", a disease then epidemic.

Cerami

According to English historian Edward Gibbon, even accounting for 5 or 6 men at arms accompanying each Norman knight into battle, and even accounting for the Normans' superior martial training, the victory was either miraculous or fabulous.

Chapel of the Holy Well

Chapel of the Holy well is a chapel located in Marianka, Slovakia, upon the rumoured miraculous stream.

Cybele

Roman legend connects this voyage, or its end, to the matron Claudia Quinta, who was accused of inchastity but proved her innocence with a miraculous feat on behalf of the goddess.

Dashakumaracharita

One night he sees that a Siddha (sorcerer) is about to sacrifice the princess Kanakalekha of Kalinga in order to obtain miraculous powers.

De Locis Sanctis

Arculf also saw many relics such as the miraculous grave cloth of Jesus (compare the Shroud of Turin), which had brought generations of good fortune, and the very fig tree on which Judas Iscariot hanged himself.

Dongfang Shuo

He was supposedly an embodiment of Sui (歲 "Jupiter") or Taibai (太白 "Venus"), had a miraculous birth, possessed supernatural powers, and went through numerous reincarnations, including Laozi and Fan Li.

Dray Prescot series

The series features the story of Earthman Dray Prescot, an English sailor of Nelson's navy, and his miraculous teleportation to the planet Kregen.

Dun Cow

The 12th century chronicler Symeon of Durham recounts in his Libellus de exordio atque procurso istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis that after wandering in the north, Saint Cuthbert’s bier came to a miraculous halt at the hill of Warden Law and, despite the effort of the congregation, would not move.

Dzików, Tarnobrzeg

This came to Church officials, and on November 11, 1675 in Kielce, Bishop of Kraków Andrzej Trzebicki recognized the painting as miraculous.

E. S. Campbell

Campbell recalls the February night in a lifeboat in the Arctic filled with terrified refugees, his efforts to send SOS signals in gale-force winds, and of their miraculous rescue.

Epistemic theory of miracles

The epistemic conception of the miraculous does not agree with the definition given in the famous McLean v. Arkansas case.

Faith healing

Among the best-known accounts by Catholics of faith healings are those attributed to the miraculous intercession of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary known as Our Lady of Lourdes at the grotto of Lourdes in France and the remissions of life-threatening disease claimed by those who have applied for aid to Saint Jude, who is known as the "patron saint of lost causes".

Holy Infant of Good Health

The Holy Infant of Good Health (Santo Niño de la salud) is a statue of the Christ Child regarded by many to be miraculous, which was found in 1939, in Morelia (Michoacán State), Mexico.

Hour of Coming

The poem turned out to be almost prophetic, and became famous due to the miraculous coincidences between its final stanza and the events at the inaugural World Twenty20 Cricket final match.

Ilocos Sur

Churches - most notable of these churches include the Vigan Cathedral (which is the seat of eva Segovia, and where the remains of the Ilocano poet Leona Florentino is interred), Santa Maria Church (which is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list), Candon Church (has a grand facade and is famous for its tall bell tower and the longest painting in the Philippines) and Sinait Church (which houses the miraculous Statue of the Black Nazarene).

James S. Hirsch

He was a reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and his first book was the best-selling Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter.

John Sencio

On the American Cancer Society website site Sencio is described as having a “miraculous” recovery.

Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor

Anticipating later Biblical criticism, he assumed the presence of duplicate narratives in the Bible, and he strove to give rational explanations to the miraculous stories.

Madonna with the Fish

On the other side the archangel Raphael is presenting at the foot of the throne the young Tobias, whom he formerly guided to the River Tigris, and who bears the miraculous fish whose heart, liver and gall were to restore his father's sight, and drive the demons from his bride.

Maria Jeyarani David

Maria was into lecturing and teaching at various academic institutions abroad and later in the United States before she started her "healing ministry" that focuses on miraculous healings of diseases through Jesus, since 1986.

Mariazell Basilica

This chapel sits on the site of the first "cell" and holds a Late Romanesque miraculous image of the Virgin Mary - the "Magna Mater Austria" - a 48 cm tall statuette made of linden.

Ngome Marian Shrine

There are reports of miraculous and spontaneous healing at the shrine, and comparisons with Lourdes are drawn.

Our Lady of Covadonga

And in recognition of this miraculous intercession, King Alfonso I, the Catholic (739-757) commanded that a monastery and chapel be built on the site in honor of Our Lady of Covadonga.

Pisgah Grande

Dr. Yoakum had experienced a spiritual awakening and decided to devote his life to religious pursuits after a miraculous recovery from a carriage accident in 1895 in Denver.

Rabbula

During a journey to his country estates he was converted to Christianity partly through coming in contact with a case of miraculous healing and partly through the teaching and influence of Eusebius, bishop of Kenneschrin, and Acacius, bishop of Aleppo.

Rhubarb Rhubarb

Said help takes on an increasingly miraculous appearance, to the extent of inanimate objects appearing to move in order to block the inspector's shots.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayonne

Local tradition maintains that St. Leo, the martyr, with whose memory is associated a miraculous fountain, was the first Bishop of Bayonne.

Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental

The town of Santa Catalina got its name after the supposedly miraculous image of the patron saint, Santa Catalina de Alejandria, installed in the community chapel.

Sianowo

His and many other testimonies led Chełmno Kazimierz Bishop Józef Kowalski to address a request (1965) to Pope Paul VI to crown the miraculous statue as the Queen of the Kashubs.

Signs and Wonders

The recent emerging emphasis on signs and wonders began in 1981 when John Wimber delivered a lecture at Fuller Theological Seminary entitled, “Signs, Wonders and Church Growth.” From 1982 to 1985 Wimber taught the course, “The Miraculous and Church Growth.” The story of this course that many in the Pentecostal, Charismatic and Neocharismatic traditions would consider historic is told in Wagner’s Signs and Wonders Today, published in 1983.

Sucat railway station

Further away from the station are Our Lady of Miraculous Medal National Shrine, St. James College of Parañaque, Sucat Elementary School, Cupang Elementary School, the Muntinlupa Business High School, a Makro, the Philippine headquarters of Zilog, housing developments such as Posadas Village and the Tribeca Private Residences, and cemeteries such as the Loyola Memorial Park and the Manila Memorial Park.

Supernatural

We say also that wicked men are still in the state of nature, but the regenerate in a state of grace; that cures wrought by medicines are natural operations; but the miraculous ones wrought by Christ and his apostles were supernatural.

Téréba Togola

Togola was born in Bougouni Cercle, Sikasso in 1948 to a Bambara village chief and one of his later wives who was thought to be barren; in the Bambara language, Téréba translates to "surprise" or "miraculous birth".

The Ballad of Beta-2

The book's plot includes, in effect, a re-enactment of some of the main themes of Christian theology - the Annunciation, Mary becoming miraculously pregnant and her giving birth to the miraculous Jesus Christ.

Theotokos Fyodorovskaya

As soon as he was cured of palsy, Pleshkov commissioned Gury Nikitin, the most famous wall-painter of 17th-century Russia, who hailed from Kostroma, to paint a copy of the miraculous icon.

Tlacote el Bajo

It is famous for its allegedly miraculous water springs, which were visited by many celebrities, including NBA player Magic Johnson.

Vayqan-e Maqadas

In addition, a holy icons, known as toq, was placed in the mosque and allegedly showed miraculous feats during the mourning period of Muharram.

Voto de Santiago

The Voto de Santiago was an offering rendered by the Christian kingdoms of Asturias, Galicia, León and Castille to Saint James and his cathedral at Santiago de Compostella in thanks for the saint's miraculous intervention, which they believed had enabled them to win the legendary battle of Clavijo against the Moors.

William M. Branham

Branham claimed that God's miraculous intervention healed King George VI of England through his prayers.

Wola Gułowska

The church is famous for its miraculous image of the Virgin Mary, recognised in 1982 by the Archbishop Józef Glemp, and a copy of the image of Madonna.


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