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.
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.
4 claims
Bella Montoya, a 76-year-old retired nurse in Babahoyo, Ecuador, was declared dead at Martín Icaza Hospital on June 9, 2023, after arriving unconscious with a suspected stroke and failing to respond to resuscitation; about five hours into her wake, some twenty mourners heard knocking from inside the coffin and opened it to find her breathing. She spent a week in intensive care at the same hospital and died on June 16, 2023, of an ischemic stroke, while Ecuador's health ministry opened an audit of how the country certifies death.
Bella Montoya, a 76-year-old retired nurse in Babahoyo, Ecuador, was declared dead at Martín Icaza Hospital on June 9, 2023, after arriving unconscious with a suspected stroke and failing to respond to resuscitation; about five hours into her wake, some twenty mourners heard knocking from inside the coffin and opened it to find her breathing. She spent a week in intensive care at the same hospital and died on June 16, 2023, of an ischemic stroke, while Ecuador's health ministry opened an audit of how the country certifies death.
Marion Carroll, a 38-year-old Athlone woman carried into Knock basilica on a stretcher on September 3, 1989 — paralyzed, doubly incontinent, nearly blind, and unable to swallow — stood up cured minutes after the blessing of the sick; thirty years later, on September 1, 2019, the Irish Catholic Church formally recognized her healing as having no medical explanation, the first such recognition in the shrine's 140-year history, while the Knock Medical Bureau's own file records that her multiple sclerosis was never formally diagnosed.
Marion Carroll, a 38-year-old Athlone woman carried into Knock basilica on a stretcher on September 3, 1989 — paralyzed, doubly incontinent, nearly blind, and unable to swallow — stood up cured minutes after the blessing of the sick; thirty years later, on September 1, 2019, the Irish Catholic Church formally recognized her healing as having no medical explanation, the first such recognition in the shrine's 140-year history, while the Knock Medical Bureau's own file records that her multiple sclerosis was never formally diagnosed.
In January–March 1933, eleven-year-old Mariette Beco of Banneux, Belgium, reported eight apparitions of the Virgin Mary who identified herself as 'the Virgin of the Poor' and directed her to a spring 'for all nations.'
In January–March 1933, eleven-year-old Mariette Beco of Banneux, Belgium, reported eight apparitions of the Virgin Mary who identified herself as 'the Virgin of the Poor' and directed her to a spring 'for all nations.'
On August 21, 1879, fifteen witnesses in Knock, Ireland, reported seeing a silent tableau of the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St. John the Evangelist, and a lamb on the south gable of the parish church, glowing in heavy rain.
On August 21, 1879, fifteen witnesses in Knock, Ireland, reported seeing a silent tableau of the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St. John the Evangelist, and a lamb on the south gable of the parish church, glowing in heavy rain.