The claims
Each entry pairs a reported miracle with the documentary record and an honest, confidence-labeled estimate of how likely it is that no natural explanation accounts for it.
11 claims
63% authenticResists a natural explanation
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.
Gold standardhealing·Lourdes, France (patient from Tursi-Lagonegro region, Italy)
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.
1% authentic
Strong natural explanation
A 13th-century account describes a consecrated host stolen for a sorceress beginning to bleed, leading to its veneration in Santarém, Portugal, where it is still displayed in a crystal reliquary.
Unproveneucharistic·Santarém, Portugal
Eucharistic Miracle of Santarém
A 13th-century account describes a consecrated host stolen for a sorceress beginning to bleed, leading to its veneration in Santarém, Portugal, where it is still displayed in a crystal reliquary.
8% authentic
Strong natural explanation
In 1531, a Marian image allegedly appeared miraculously on the cloak of indigenous convert Juan Diego in Mexico City, producing an artifact still venerated nearly 500 years later.
Unprovenapparition·Tepeyac Hill, Mexico City, Mexico
Our Lady of Guadalupe (The Tilma of Juan Diego)
In 1531, a Marian image allegedly appeared miraculously on the cloak of indigenous convert Juan Diego in Mexico City, producing an artifact still venerated nearly 500 years later.
1% authentic
Strong natural explanation
A devotional image of the Virgin Mary is embedded in a rock face in the Guaitara River canyon in Colombia, reportedly appearing miraculously in 1754; geological analysis claims the pigment penetrates meters into the stone.
Unprovenapparition·Guaitara River Canyon, near Ipiales, Nariño, Colombia
Our Lady of Las Lajas (Miraculous Image in Stone)
A devotional image of the Virgin Mary is embedded in a rock face in the Guaitara River canyon in Colombia, reportedly appearing miraculously in 1754; geological analysis claims the pigment penetrates meters into the stone.
20% authentic
Likely a natural explanation
In 1858, a 14-year-old French girl reported 18 apparitions of 'a Lady' in a grotto near Lourdes, where a spring emerged that has since been associated with thousands of reported miraculous cures.
Explainedapparition·Grotto of Massabielle, Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
Our Lady of Lourdes (Bernadette Soubirous)
In 1858, a 14-year-old French girl reported 18 apparitions of 'a Lady' in a grotto near Lourdes, where a spring emerged that has since been associated with thousands of reported miraculous cures.
55% authentic
Genuinely uncertain
A French Franciscan nun with nearly 50 years of cauda equina syndrome — spinal nerve compression causing chronic paraplegia — recovered completely during a 2008 Lourdes pilgrimage, recognized as the 70th miracle in 2018.
Silver · promotablehealing·Lourdes, France (patient from France)
Sister Bernadette Moriau: 70th Lourdes Miracle — Cauda Equina Syndrome Resolved
A French Franciscan nun with nearly 50 years of cauda equina syndrome — spinal nerve compression causing chronic paraplegia — recovered completely during a 2008 Lourdes pilgrimage, recognized as the 70th miracle in 2018.
27% authentic
Likely a natural explanation
A French man with advanced multiple sclerosis recovered after a 1987 Lourdes pilgrimage — recognized as a miracle in 1999 after a twelve-year medical review.
Explainedhealing·Lourdes, France
The Lourdes Cure of Jean-Pierre Bély
A French man with advanced multiple sclerosis recovered after a 1987 Lourdes pilgrimage — recognized as a miracle in 1999 after a twelve-year medical review.
14% authentic
Strong natural explanation
A linen cloth bearing the faint image of a crucified man — revered as Christ's burial shroud, radiocarbon-dated to the medieval period, and disputed ever since.
Unprovenrelics·Turin, Italy
The Shroud of Turin
A linen cloth bearing the faint image of a crucified man — revered as Christ's burial shroud, radiocarbon-dated to the medieval period, and disputed ever since.
8% authentic
Strong natural explanation
A subset of Guadalupan claims holds that magnified examination of the tilma image's eyes reveals a reflected scene of thirteen or more identifiable people — evidence of a supernaturally accurate image that would have required a living eye to produce.
Unprovenapparition·Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico
The Tilma's Eyes: Reflected Figures Claim
A subset of Guadalupan claims holds that magnified examination of the tilma image's eyes reveals a reflected scene of thirteen or more identifiable people — evidence of a supernaturally accurate image that would have required a living eye to produce.
47% authentic
Genuinely uncertain
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.
Bronze · contestedhealing·Florence / Assisi, Italy (patient from Costa Rica)
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.
63% authenticResists a natural explanation
An Italian soldier with an inoperable sarcoma destroying his pelvis and hip socket recovered completely after a 1963 Lourdes pilgrimage; follow-up X-rays showed the destroyed bone had reconstructed — a case published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Gold standardhealing·Lourdes, France (patient from Trento, Italy)
Vittorio Micheli: Pelvic Sarcoma Healed — Bone Reconstruction Documented by X-ray
An Italian soldier with an inoperable sarcoma destroying his pelvis and hip socket recovered completely after a 1963 Lourdes pilgrimage; follow-up X-rays showed the destroyed bone had reconstructed — a case published in a peer-reviewed journal.