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Miracles Jar

Every rating revision, on the record

Ratings change — when the rubric improves, when evidence arrives, when we were wrong. Each change lands here with the old number, the new number, and the reason. The register is append-only: revisions are recorded, never erased. 411 entries to date.

Reason codes

rubric-v1
First calibrated grading — the claim's first number under rubric v1 (mechanism × documentation weight).
rubric-v2
Rubric v2 migration — the headline became the product of two bars: the Miracle Meter (if the facts are true, could nature do this?) × Evidence (did it happen as reported?).
rubric-v3
Rubric v3 — refuted-but-unconfessed claims floored below merely-undocumented ones (Evidence ≤ 8), every grade names the disputed-fact kernel it scores, the Gold evidence bar rose to 80, and Disproven now distinguishes confessed from refuted.

How the bars and the headline work is defined on the methodology page.

2026-07-06

12 revisions

  • The Dhammakaya 'Sun Miracle'

    rubric-v4.2-levelup · B level-up (Josh 2026-07-06, provisional): apply the v4.2 court standard tradition-blind — raise under-credited non-Catholic cures to the same evidentiary bar the Catholic cures got. Evidence leveled up; miracle axis set on the honest natural-rival judgment.

    5%10%5
  • STEPP Study — Proximal Intercessory Prayer and Sensory Improvement in Mozambique (2010)

    rubric-v4.2-levelup · B level-up (Josh 2026-07-06, provisional): apply the v4.2 court standard tradition-blind — raise under-credited non-Catholic cures to the same evidentiary bar the Catholic cures got. Evidence leveled up; miracle axis set on the honest natural-rival judgment.

    12%29%17
  • Barbara Cummiskey Snyder — Multiple Sclerosis Remission (1981)

    rubric-v4.2-levelup · B level-up (Josh 2026-07-06, provisional): apply the v4.2 court standard tradition-blind — raise under-credited non-Catholic cures to the same evidentiary bar the Catholic cures got. Evidence leveled up; miracle axis set on the honest natural-rival judgment.

    25%55%30
  • inedia-systematic-review

    disproven-audit-v4.2 · Disproven audit (Josh 2026-07-06): reclassified Disproven/refuted -> UNPROVEN. Basis was absence of proof (never authenticated / testimony-only / legend / refused testing), not positive refutation. Provisional — flagged for Josh's review.

    3%14%11
  • Padre Pio's Bilocation

    disproven-audit-v4.2 · Disproven audit (Josh 2026-07-06): reclassified Disproven/refuted -> UNPROVEN. Basis was absence of proof (never authenticated / testimony-only / legend / refused testing), not positive refutation. Provisional — flagged for Josh's review.

    7%12%5
  • Blessed Imelda Lambertini — The Child Who Died at First Communion

    disproven-audit-v4.2 · Disproven audit (Josh 2026-07-06): reclassified Disproven/refuted -> UNPROVEN. Basis was absence of proof (never authenticated / testimony-only / legend / refused testing), not positive refutation. Provisional — flagged for Josh's review.

    1%1%0
  • Marthe Robin's Fifty-Year Inedia

    disproven-audit-v4.2 · Disproven audit (Josh 2026-07-06): reclassified Disproven/refuted -> UNPROVEN. Basis was absence of proof (never authenticated / testimony-only / legend / refused testing), not positive refutation. Provisional — flagged for Josh's review.

    5%14%9
  • The Miracles of Apollonius of Tyana

    disproven-audit-v4.2 · Disproven audit (Josh 2026-07-06): reclassified Disproven/refuted -> UNPROVEN. Basis was absence of proof (never authenticated / testimony-only / legend / refused testing), not positive refutation. Provisional — flagged for Josh's review.

    6%11%5
  • The Weeping Madonna of Civitavecchia: Male Blood of an Untested Source

    disproven-audit-v4.2 · Disproven audit (Josh 2026-07-06): reclassified Disproven/refuted -> UNPROVEN. Basis was absence of proof (never authenticated / testimony-only / legend / refused testing), not positive refutation. Provisional — flagged for Josh's review.

    3%16%13
  • Todd Bentley's Lakeland Revival Healing Claims (2008)

    disproven-audit-v4.2 · Disproven audit (Josh 2026-07-06): reclassified Disproven/refuted -> UNPROVEN. Basis was absence of proof (never authenticated / testimony-only / legend / refused testing), not positive refutation. Provisional — flagged for Josh's review.

    4%15%11
  • Benny Hinn: HBO and NBC Dateline Investigations Find No Verified Healings

    disproven-audit-v4.2 · Disproven audit (Josh 2026-07-06): reclassified Disproven/refuted -> UNPROVEN. Basis was absence of proof (never authenticated / testimony-only / legend / refused testing), not positive refutation. Provisional — flagged for Josh's review.

    4%14%10
  • Smith Wigglesworth's Claimed Resurrections from the Dead (1900s-1940s)

    rubric-v4.2-disproven-audit · Court-level Disproven bar (Josh 2026-07-06): reclassified Disproven/refuted -> UNPROVEN. Basis was 'never independently authenticated' = absence of proof, not positive refutation; no confession, no debunked specific case. Removed disprovenKind; F 5->20 (Unproven band); removed the daughter-deafness counter-evidence framing; rival fraud->misperception.

    5%19%14

2026-07-05

26 revisions

  • The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima

    rubric-v4.2 · Rubric v4.2 axis-separation fix: Evidence scores the documented physical facts (crowd gathered + reported the phenomenon), interpretation-free; raised 50->70 for parity with the structurally identical Medjugorje sun event (F72). The perceptual rival lives on the Miracle meter (M22), not double-counted on evidence.

    11%15%4
  • The Calanda Miracle: A Restored Leg

    rubric-v4.2 · Rubric v4.2 court-standard evidence: sworn 1640 canonical inquiry credited (clear-and-convincing); open identity question caps below the instrumented top band → Evidence 68.

    45%67%22
  • Sister Bernadette Moriau: 70th Lourdes Miracle — Cauda Equina Syndrome Resolved

    rubric-v4.2 · Rubric v4.2 court-standard evidence: complete modern medical dossier, official 2018 recognition, 10-year follow-up → Evidence 90.

    63%65%2
  • Consiglia De Martino: Ruptured Thoracic Duct Heals Before Surgery

    rubric-v4.2 · Rubric v4.2 court-standard evidence: instrumented before/after imaging + unanimous Consulta, no refutation → Evidence 95.

    70%76%6
  • Vittorio Micheli: Pelvic Sarcoma Healed — Bone Reconstruction Documented by X-ray

    rubric-v4.2 · Rubric v4.2: set as the Evidence anchor (F99, court 'beyond reasonable doubt' standard — before/after serial X-rays cleared by an adversarial panel); Miracle 96, held just below Calanda. Now the Most Convincing Case (highest min).

    79%95%16
  • James Fulton Engstrom: Stillborn 61 Minutes, Full Recovery — Fulton Sheen's Miracle

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — survival of a 61-minute normothermic arrest without lasting injury is beyond any documented precedent

    62%66%4
  • Antonietta Raco: Primary Lateral Sclerosis Healed — The 72nd Recognized Miracle

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — spontaneous remission of primary lateral sclerosis has no documented precedent or known mechanism

    63%68%5
  • Joan of Arc 'Relics' — Confirmed 20th-Century Forgery

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-C — the underlying claim, that remains survived and are hers, is physically ordinary; Gate E-CAP-0 — the forensic refutation holds evidence at the floor

    1%1%0
  • Padre Pio's Stigmata

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-D — documented natural mechanisms for stigmata exist and the fraud rival remains live

    26%20%6
  • The Liquefaction of the Blood of St. Januarius, Naples

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-D — thixotropy reproduces the liquefaction; Gate E-CAP-1 — the substance has never been released for independent analysis, capping the evidence

    10%7%3
  • The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-D — optical and retinal effects of sun-staring are known mechanisms; Gate E-2 — a vast contemporaneous crowd record, but perceptual only and uninstrumented

    20%11%9
  • The 1995 Ganesha Milk Miracle

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-D — capillary action is a demonstrated mechanism; Gate E-1 — the filmed, reproduced uptake sets the instrumented floor

    5%19%14
  • The Shroud of Turin

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — the image formation remains unreplicated with no known mechanism, while the medieval radiocarbon date bites harder on the evidence

    32%26%6
  • Gabriel Gargam: Railroad Accident Survivor Walks After Two Years Bedridden

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — same-day reversal of a two-year spinal injury has no documented precedent; Gate E-2 — the 1901 record predates the imaging an instrumented floor requires

    49%47%2
  • Sister Bernadette Moriau: 70th Lourdes Miracle — Cauda Equina Syndrome Resolved

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — reversal of decades-old cauda equina damage has no documented precedent or known mechanism

    55%63%8
  • Consiglia De Martino: Ruptured Thoracic Duct Heals Before Surgery

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — overnight thoracic-duct repair has no documented precedent or known mechanism

    66%70%4
  • Vittorio Micheli: Pelvic Sarcoma Healed — Bone Reconstruction Documented by X-ray

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — bone reconstruction after untreated sarcoma has no documented precedent; Gate E-1 — serial X-rays open to independent review set the instrumented floor

    63%79%16
  • The Tilma's Eyes: Reflected Figures Claim

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — reflected figures forming in a woven image would be unprecedented; Gate E-CAP-0 — the optical refutation holds evidence at the floor

    5%4%1
  • Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires (1996)

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — host-to-cardiac-tissue transformation is unprecedented with no known mechanism; Gate E-CAP-1 — samples never released for independent testing cap the evidence

    16%21%5
  • The Miracles of Francis Xavier and the Growth of His Legend

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — a gift of tongues is a claimed power with no known mechanism, not an observed impossibility; Gate E-CAP-0 — his own letters refute the claim

    4%3%1
  • Uri Geller Fails Controlled Test on The Tonight Show (1973)

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — psychokinesis is a claimed power with no known mechanism, not an observed impossibility; Gate E-CAP-0 — the controlled failure holds evidence at the floor

    3%2%1
  • Peter Popoff's Radio Earpiece Fraud

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — claimed clairvoyance has no known mechanism but is not an observed impossibility; Gate E-CAP-0 — the earpiece exposure holds evidence at the floor

    2%2%0
  • Padre Pio's Bilocation

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-B — presence in two places as reported is testimony of an unprecedented power, not an observed impossibility

    10%7%3
  • Smith Wigglesworth's Claimed Resurrections from the Dead (1900s-1940s)

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-A — return from verified death has no natural instance; Gate E-CAP-0 — no raising was ever authenticated

    8%5%3
  • Marthe Robin's Fifty-Year Inedia

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-A — years of survival without food has no natural instance; Gate E-CAP-0 — the posthumous fraud finding holds evidence at the floor

    5%5%0
  • The Calanda Miracle: A Restored Leg

    rubric-v4 · Rubric v4 binary gates (Josh-approved marquee rescore): Gate M-A — no natural instance of limb regrowth exists; Gate E-2 — sworn 1640 inquiry testimony, with the identity question open

    37%45%8

2026-06-13

5 revisions

2026-06-12

35 revisions

2026-06-11

333 revisions

Aggregate effects of these revisions — tier distribution, score histograms, anchor compliance — are on the calibration page.