The claims

For eight years, crowds gathered on a hillside above Lake Bracciano where Gisella Cardia said a statuette of the Virgin wept blood and delivered monthly messages; court-commissioned genetic testing found the traces on the statue matched Cardia's own DNA, the bishop ruled constat de non supernaturalitate in March 2024 with Vatican confirmation in June, and the Cardias were ordered to stand trial for fraud — while Cardia, through her lawyer, maintains her innocence.

The mysterious oil reported to exude from religious objects in the Worcester, Massachusetts, room of comatose Audrey Santo was chemically analyzed in 1998 and identified as approximately 80% corn and soybean oil combined with animal fat — commercial cooking oil components, not an unknown substance.

Italian laywoman Gemma Galgani (1878–1903) received visible stigmata weekly from 1899 until 1901, witnessed by her spiritual director and household members, though a physician found no wound beneath the surface blood.

A hollow bronze Virgin Mary statue at Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Hobbs, New Mexico, appeared to weep an olive-oil-like substance in 2018, prompting a formal Diocese investigation that confirmed the liquid was rose-scented olive oil.

Seventeenth-century Italian Franciscan friar Joseph of Cupertino was reportedly observed flying or hovering on over seventy occasions by witnesses ranging from fellow friars to visiting royalty and clergy.

French mystic Marthe Robin (1902–1981) reportedly lived without food or water for over fifty years, sustained only by the Eucharist, but declined all controlled medical testing and remains contested by Church investigators and historians.

Spanish Franciscan abbess Mary of Ágreda (1602–1665) reportedly bilocated to the Jumano tribe in Texas and New Mexico over 500 times in the 1620s while remaining in her convent in Spain, evidenced by Franciscan missionary accounts and Jumano testimony in 1629.

Hundreds of Orthodox Christian icons have reportedly streamed myrrh-like oil since the late twentieth century, with clusters in Russia, North America, and Greece; scientific explanations include capillary action, oil condensation, and deliberate application, though none fully account for all reported cases.

A wooden statue of the Virgin Mary at the Institute of the Handmaids of the Eucharist in Akita, Japan wept on 101 documented occasions between 1973 and 1981, with tears and blood analyzed as human biological fluids; Bishop Ito approved veneration in 1984.

Numerous sworn accounts describe Padre Pio appearing to individuals at locations remote from San Giovanni Rotondo simultaneously with verified presence at his friary, including a reported intervention over Allied bombers in World War II.

Italian Capuchin friar Francesco Forgione (Padre Pio) bore visible wounds on his hands, feet, and side for approximately fifty years, examined by multiple physicians who reached contradictory conclusions.

Indian spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba, who claimed to materialize objects from thin air as proof of divinity, was captured on multiple occasions apparently concealing and transferring objects using standard conjuring technique, and refused every request for controlled testing.

Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) claimed to materialize objects — watches, jewelry, ash, lingams — from thin air before millions of followers, but multiple investigations documented sleight-of-hand, and footage from India's national broadcaster showed an assistant passing him a gold chain before 'materialization.'

Francis of Assisi reportedly received the five wounds of Christ at Mount La Verna in September 1224, documented by contemporaries including Thomas of Celano and witnessed by brothers who saw the marks on his body before and after his death.

On September 21, 1995, Hindu devotees worldwide reported that statues of Ganesha and other deities were drinking milk offered by spoon — a mass phenomenon that lasted roughly 24 hours before stopping as abruptly as it began.

Photographs of fairies taken by two Yorkshire cousins in 1917, which convinced Arthur Conan Doyle and leading spiritualists of fairy existence, were confessed by both subjects in 1983 to be cardboard cutouts supported on hatpins.

In October 2007, a reproduction of the Iveron icon belonging to an Orthodox couple in Kailua, Hawaii began streaming fragrant oil and was recognized by the Russian Orthodox Church as miraculous the following year.

Each Orthodox Holy Saturday, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch emerges from Christ's Tomb bearing candles said to have been lit by spontaneous blue flame — claimed as the longest-attested annual Christian miracle.

Russia's most-traveled wonder-working icon, the 13th-century Kursk Root Icon of the Sign, survived a 1898 bomb blast that destroyed its iron canopy and marble pedestal while leaving the icon and its glass untouched.

A sealed ampoule claimed to contain the dried blood of 4th-century martyr Januarius liquefies reliably three times per year in Naples, a phenomenon documented since at least 1389 that has failed to occur on roughly a dozen recorded occasions.

In 2006 a pet-shop oscar fish in Greater Manchester was reported to bear the Arabic words 'Allah' and 'Muhammad' in its markings, sparking international media coverage and becoming one of the most documented cases of perceived divine Arabic script in natural objects.

A Byzantine Greek Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary in Máriapócs, Hungary wept visibly for eleven days in November–December 1696, witnessed by large crowds and authenticated by a mixed committee of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish investigators; it wept again in 1715 and 1905.

Since the 1980s, pilgrims at Medjugorje, Bosnia have reported seeing the sun spin, dance, and emit colored light — a phenomenon producing documented cases of solar retinopathy and explained by ophthalmologists and physicists as the result of extended sun-gazing.

On a date announced three months in advance, a crowd of tens of thousands reported the sun spinning, changing color, and plunging toward the earth.

Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier (1506-1552) had modest miracle claims in his lifetime, but a posthumous hagiographic tradition amplified them dramatically -- including a fabricated gift of tongues first attributed to him nearly eighty years after his death.

A reproduction of the Iveron icon, entrusted to Chilean-Canadian Orthodox layman Jose Munoz-Cortes in Montreal in 1982, reportedly streamed fragrant myrrh almost continuously for 15 years until its guardian was murdered and the icon vanished.

Multiple saints and mystics have been reported to emit sweet floral fragrances — during life, at death, or from their bodies after death — a phenomenon attributed to supernatural holiness but with several proposed natural explanations.

The icon central to Pontic Greek Orthodox identity, attributed by tradition to St. Luke the Evangelist, was secretly buried by monks in 1923 at the time of the Lausanne population exchange and successfully recovered and transferred to Greece in 1931.

An Italian statue of the Virgin Mary reported to weep blood in 1995 was investigated by forensic scientists; the blood was typed as male, the statue's owner refused DNA testing, and a subsequent Italian trial established a church custodian had applied blood to a different statue using his own blood.

Bavarian mystic Therese Neumann (1898–1962) claimed to have lived without food or water from 1922 until her death, sustained only by the Eucharist, and bore visible stigmata from 1926; a 1927 medical observation produced ambiguous results she later refused to repeat.