The claims

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Heidi Baker's Iris Global ministry in Mozambique has claimed numerous blind and deaf healings since the 1990s; the STEPP study (2010) measured improvements in 24 participants, but Baker's individual healing testimonies lack independent medical verification.

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.

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.

A French woman who had undergone thirteen surgeries over eleven years for tubercular peritonitis, semi-comatose on arrival, awoke and recovered completely at a Lourdes procession in October 1948.

A Royal Marine severely disabled in the Gallipoli campaign — epileptic, partially paralyzed, right arm immobile — experienced sudden complete recovery at the 1923 Lourdes Eucharistic Procession, recognized as the 71st miracle in December 2024.

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.

A woman declared healed of spinal cancer at a Kuhlman service discarded her brace on stage, suffered spinal collapse the next day, and died four months later — the most-cited case in William Nolen MD's 1974 skeptical investigation.