The claims

Sascha Roth and the Trial Where Every Tumor Vanished (2022)

Sascha Roth, the first patient in a Memorial Sloan Kettering trial of the immunotherapy drug dostarlimab, was packing for radiation when her doctor called to say there was no cancer left to treat; every one of the 12 patients with a specific genetic subtype of rectal cancer reached a complete clinical response, a result one investigator called the first of its kind in the history of cancer — and the mechanism behind it is fully understood, which is exactly why the case belongs here.

Chris Gunderson — 16 Years of Feeding-Tube Dependence Resolved After Prayer (2011)

A young man fed exclusively by j-tube since infancy due to congenital gastroparesis reported an immediate ability to eat after intercessory prayer at a 2011 church service; a 2019 peer-reviewed case report documents the resolution and seven-plus symptom-free years.

Gardell Martin — 101 Minutes Without a Pulse, Full Recovery (2015)

A 22-month-old Pennsylvania boy swept into a 34-degree stream was pulseless through 101 minutes of continuous CPR, then recovered almost completely — a documented outcome physicians attribute to protective hypothermia.

Jahi McMath — A Family's Challenge to the Definition of Brain Death (2013–2018)

Declared brain-dead at 13 after catastrophic bleeding following airway surgery in Oakland, Jahi McMath was kept on support by her family in New Jersey for four and a half years — long enough for a senior neurologist to conclude she no longer met the criteria under which she had been declared dead — before dying of liver failure in 2018, in a case that has become the sharpest stress test the legal definition of brain death has ever received.

John Smith — Heart Restarted After 15 Minutes Under a Frozen Lake (2015)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

A 14-year-old submerged in an icy Missouri lake for over 15 minutes had no pulse for roughly 45 minutes of CPR; his heart restarted moments after his mother prayed aloud over him, and he recovered with normal brain function within weeks.

Lewis Roberts — Breathing Hours Before His Organs Were to Be Donated (2021)

Four days after being struck by a van, 18-year-old Lewis Roberts was declared brain-stem dead and his family consented to organ donation; hours before the retrieval surgery his sister saw breathing activity on his monitor, the declaration was reversed, and he went on to speak, walk miles, and live at home.

Munira Abdulla — Speaking Again After 27 Years in a Minimally Conscious State (2018)

An Emirati woman left unresponsive by a 1991 car crash regained speech in June 2018 — calling her son's name from a German hospital bed — after 27 years in which her family never stopped caring for her or praying for her recovery.

Alice Couteault: Multiple Sclerosis Remission at Lourdes Baths

A 34-year-old French woman with clinically confirmed multiple sclerosis recovered completely after bathing at Lourdes in May 1952, with the cure recognized as miraculous in 1956 after a four-year follow-up confirmed no relapse.

Alice Wigglesworth: The Healer's Deaf Daughter Never Healed

Smith Wigglesworth's own daughter Alice, who assisted in his healing meetings for decades and was the person most accessible to his ministry, remained deaf throughout her life despite her father's claimed powers.

Amanda Paola: Unborn Baby Survives Against All Odds — Paul VI's Canonization Miracle

An Italian woman's premature placental rupture resolved after her family prayed to Blessed Paul VI, and the baby — given no chance of survival — was born healthy on Christmas Day 2014.

Ann O'Neill — Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Remission (1952)

A four-year-old Baltimore girl diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia — then uniformly fatal — experienced complete remission in 1952, verified by a decade of bone marrow tests and accepted by the Vatican as a miracle for the canonization of Elizabeth Ann Seton.

Antonietta Raco: Primary Lateral Sclerosis Healed — The 72nd Recognized Miracle

An Italian woman with Primary Lateral Sclerosis — a rare, incurable, progressive motor neuron disease — recovered completely during a 2009 Lourdes pilgrimage, recognized as the 72nd Lourdes miracle on April 16, 2025.

Apollonius of Tyana: The Resurrection of a Roman Girl

Philostratus's biography of Apollonius records him apparently restoring a recently deceased Roman senator's daughter to life in Rome -- a miracle explicitly paralleled to Gospel resurrection accounts by later commentators.

Augustine's Catalogue of Miracles in City of God, Book 22

In the final book of City of God (c. 426 CE), Augustine of Hippo compiled approximately seventy attested miracle accounts from his own diocese, presenting them as evidence that miracles had not ceased with the apostolic age.

Barbara Cummiskey Snyder — Multiple Sclerosis Remission (1981)

A woman diagnosed with severe multiple sclerosis at age 15, admitted to hospice in 1978, reported an instantaneous and complete recovery on June 7, 1981, with post-healing physician notes confirming absence of all prior MS findings.

Bede's Account of the Miracles of St. Cuthbert

The Venerable Bede, in his Prose Life of St. Cuthbert (c. 721 CE) and Ecclesiastical History (731 CE), catalogues dozens of miracles by the Northumbrian bishop including post-mortem healings from his incorrupt body.

Benny Hinn: HBO and NBC Dateline Investigations Find No Verified Healings

Two major broadcast investigations — an HBO documentary in 2001 and repeated NBC Dateline reports — followed up on Benny Hinn's claimed miracle healings and found no medically verified cases among those tracked.

Bethel Church Fails to Heal Apologist Nabeel Qureshi of Stage-4 Cancer (2017)

Christian apologist Nabeel Qureshi, diagnosed with stage-4 stomach cancer in 2016, sought healing at Bethel Church in Redding after other medical options were exhausted; he died September 16, 2017, despite the ministry's healing claims.

Candela Giarda: Catastrophic Childhood Encephalopathy Resolved — John Paul I's Miracle

An eleven-year-old Buenos Aires girl in septic shock from refractory epileptic encephalopathy made a complete recovery after a priest proposed her family invoke John Paul I's intercession.

Cecilia Maribel Flores: HELLP Syndrome Recovery — Oscar Romero's Canonization Miracle

A pregnant Salvadoran woman with life-threatening HELLP syndrome made a complete recovery after her community prayed to Blessed Oscar Romero.

Consiglia De Martino: Ruptured Thoracic Duct Heals Before Surgery

An Italian woman's ruptured thoracic duct — containing two liters of lymphatic fluid — resolved completely overnight after prayer to Padre Pio, the miracle used for his beatification.

Daniel Ekechukwu: Claimed Resurrection at a Reinhard Bonnke Crusade, Nigeria 2001

Nigerian pastor Daniel Ekechukwu, declared dead after a car accident on November 30, 2001 with a death certificate from St. Eunice Clinic, was reportedly resurrected two days later at a church during a Reinhard Bonnke crusade.

Deacon Jack Sullivan: Debilitating Spinal Stenosis Resolved After Newman Prayer

An American deacon-in-training nearly paralyzed by spinal stenosis recovered suddenly after praying to Cardinal John Henry Newman — the first miracle recognized toward Newman's canonization.

Delia Knox — Claimed Walking Recovery After 22 Years of Paralysis (2010)

A gospel singer paralyzed in a 1987 car accident stood and walked during a revival service in 2010 after 22 years in a wheelchair, captured on video and widely circulated, but with no publicly verified medical records before or after the event.

Delizia Cirolli: Ewing's Sarcoma Vanishes Months After Lourdes Visit

A 12-year-old Sicilian girl diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma of the knee — told she had six months to live — traveled to Lourdes in 1976 with no improvement, then recovered completely a few months later without treatment.

Edeltraud Fulda: Addison's Disease Cured at Lourdes

An Austrian woman with documented Addison's disease — chronic adrenal insufficiency — experienced complete and lasting recovery after bathing at Lourdes on August 12, 1950, recognized as miraculous by the Archbishop of Vienna.

Elisa Aloi: Ten Years of Bone Tuberculosis Healed at Lourdes

A Sicilian woman who spent a decade developing progressive multi-site bone tuberculosis with four draining fistulae, arriving in plaster cast, was declared completely cured within ten days of her 1958 Lourdes visit.

Evasio Ganora: Terminal Hodgkin's Lymphoma Cured at Lourdes Baths

An Italian farmer given months to live with advanced Hodgkin's disease rose from his stretcher after immersion in the Lourdes baths in June 1950 and was declared completely well within three days.

Floribeth Mora Díaz: Inoperable Brain Aneurysm Disappears After John Paul II Beatification

A Costa Rican lawyer diagnosed with an inoperable brain aneurysm recovered completely after praying to Blessed John Paul II during his beatification broadcast.

Gabriel Gargam: Railroad Accident Survivor Walks After Two Years Bedridden

A postal worker paralyzed from the waist down after a catastrophic 1899 train collision, wasting away on a feeding tube, stood and walked at the Lourdes eucharistic procession on August 20, 1901.