The claims

Katie Lentz and the 'Angel Priest' of Highway 19 — Resolved (2013)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

A 19-year-old trapped in a crushed car, her vital signs dropping, asked rescuers to pray aloud; a priest appeared on a blocked rural highway, anointed her, and vanished — absent from every scene photograph — and a week of angel speculation ended when Fr. Patrick Dowling identified himself, having simply parked up the road after a Sunday Mass.

Los 33 — Sixty-Nine Days Under the Atacama and the '34th Miner' (2010)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

When the San Jose mine collapsed on August 5, 2010, 33 men were sealed 700 meters underground with three days of food; they survived 17 days before a probe found them and 69 days before all 33 rode a rescue capsule to the surface — an outcome miners and nation alike credited to a '34th miner' who never left them.

Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster — The Intact Body of Gower, Missouri (2019–2023)

Four years after burying their 95-year-old foundress unembalmed in a simple wooden coffin, the Benedictines of Mary exhumed Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster in April 2023 and found her body and habit largely intact; the diocese's commissioned pathology team called the condition 'highly atypical' for the interval and conditions, forensic anthropologists answered that natural mummification in coffin burials is well documented, and the Church itself has declared no miracle and opened no cause.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hobbs, New Mexico Weeping Virgin Mary (2018)

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.

Jake Finkbonner: Flesh-Eating Bacteria Arrested After Kateri Tekakwitha Relic

A five-year-old Lummi boy's rapidly progressing necrotizing fasciitis stopped spreading and he made a full recovery after his family placed a relic of Kateri Tekakwitha on his body.

James Fulton Engstrom: Stillborn 61 Minutes, Full Recovery — Fulton Sheen's Miracle

An Illinois newborn with no heartbeat for 61 minutes, given up for dead, suddenly revived with no lasting brain damage — proposed as the miracle for Archbishop Fulton Sheen's beatification.

Juan Gutiérrez: Complete Achilles Tendon Tear Heals After Frassati Novena

An LA seminary student with MRI-confirmed complete Achilles tendon rupture was found fully healed at his orthopedic surgeon follow-up after a novena to Pier Giorgio Frassati.

Marcilio Haddad Andrino: Brain Abscesses Resolve Before Surgery After Mother Teresa Prayer

A Brazilian man with eight brain abscesses regained consciousness minutes before emergency surgery, which was then found unnecessary — the case credited to Mother Teresa's intercession and used for her canonization.

Matteo Pio Colella: Full Recovery from Fulminant Bacterial Meningitis

A seven-year-old from San Giovanni Rotondo was declared clinically lost from acute fulminant meningitis and made a complete recovery — the miracle used for Padre Pio's canonization.

Melissa Villalobos: Placental Abruption Bleeding Stops Instantly After Newman Prayer

A Chicago lawyer hemorrhaging from a partial placental abruption was instantly stopped — and the tear subsequently found to have disappeared — after a brief prayer to Blessed John Henry Newman.

Monica Besra: Abdominal Tumor Disappears After Mother Teresa Medal

A Bengali woman's large abdominal cyst reportedly vanished overnight after a Missionaries of Charity sister placed a medal on her abdomen, in a case used for Mother Teresa's beatification.

Our Lady of Medjugorje (Ongoing Alleged Apparitions)

Since June 1981, six youths (now adults) in the village of Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed ongoing daily Marian apparitions, making it one of the longest-running and most controversial alleged apparition cases in Catholic history.

Saint Silvan — Oldest 'Incorrupt' Body Is Actually a Wax Sculpture

Silvan, claimed to be the oldest incorrupt body in the Catholic Church, is on display at a Croatian church; skeptical examination reveals the 'body' is a wax sculpture with painted features, glued-on eyebrows and wig, and artificially shallow nostrils and ear canals.

Sister Caterina Capitani: Gastric Fistula Healed After John XXIII Relic

An Italian nun dying from a post-operative gastric fistula recovered instantly after a piece of John XXIII's bed sheet was placed on her wound — the case used for his beatification.

Sister Marie Simon-Pierre: Parkinson's Reversed After John Paul II Prayer

A French nun with rapidly advancing Parkinson's disease wrote legibly and was free of symptoms overnight after her congregation prayed to the recently deceased John Paul II.

The Incorrupt Body of Francis Xavier in Goa

The body of Francis Xavier was declared incorrupt when returned to Goa in 1554, two years after his death, and remains on public display at the Basilica of Bom Jesus -- though the body has visibly deteriorated and lost limbs over centuries.

The Liquefaction of the Blood of St. Januarius, Naples

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.

The Máriapócs Weeping Icon

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.

The Medjugorje 'Miracle of the Sun'

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.

The Miracles of Francis Xavier and the Growth of His Legend

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.

Valeria Valverde: Severe Brain Trauma Resolves After Pilgrimage to Carlo Acutis Tomb

A Costa Rican student's life-threatening cranial injuries and brain bruising disappeared without trace two months after a bicycle accident in Florence — the miracle for Carlo Acutis's canonization.