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.

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.

Angela of Foligno, the 13th-century Franciscan tertiary and mystic, died in 1309; her body is kept in the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta in Foligno, with incorruptibility claimed but no modern forensic verification available.

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.

Imelda Lambertini died in 1333 at age 11, reportedly from an ecstatic episode immediately after receiving her first Eucharist; her body was found incorrupt and is displayed in a wax effigy in Bologna, though independent scientific examination is lacking.

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.

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.

A German priest celebrating Mass in Bolsena reportedly experienced a bleeding host that stained the corporal linen; the event allegedly prompted Pope Urban IV to institute the Feast of Corpus Christi.

Three hundred fifty-one consecrated hosts stolen in 1730 and recovered three days later have reportedly remained intact for nearly 300 years, surviving conditions that should have caused rapid organic decay.

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.

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.

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.

Margaret of Cortona, a 13th-century penitent, died in 1297; her body has been displayed in the Basilica of Santa Margherita in Cortona for over 700 years and is described as incorrupt, though no modern independent forensic examination has been published.

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.

We were told we couldn't have children. Two strangers prayed over us at a coffee shop — and weeks later, an ocean away, a test in the 'Pharmacy of the Holy Spirit' said otherwise.

Padre Pio's body was exhumed in 2008, found in good condition, but chemical analysis revealed it had been treated with high-concentration formalin, creosote, benzoic acid, and turpentine — deliberate embalming, not miraculous preservation.

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.

When a sarcophagus believed to contain Saint Cecilia was opened in 1599, witnesses reported finding a body in a distinctive position; sculptor Stefano Maderno created an exact marble replica — but no witness actually saw her face, and historians dispute the account.

Rita of Cascia, patron of impossible causes, died in 1457; her body has been on display for nearly 600 years, with documented medical examinations in 1743 and 1892 noting repairs to the face using wax and string — indicating partial deterioration.

Zita of Lucca's body, exhumed and found incorrupt in 1580, has been on display in the Church of San Frediano for over 700 years; a 1988 University of Pisa examination confirmed it as a case of natural mummification, browned and wizened.

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.

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.

A relic said to date from the 8th century — when a host and wine reportedly became flesh and blood — was analyzed in 1971 and reported to be human heart muscle and blood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.