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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

A Lourdes quarryman blind in one eye from a mining accident washed in the spring water and immediately recovered full sight — the first cure officially recognized by the Church.

A dying 23-year-old woman with advanced peritoneal tuberculosis appeared to recover instantly at Lourdes, witnessed and documented by Dr. Alexis Carrel, later winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

A 32-year-old French woman with arachnoiditis causing total blindness, deafness, and hemiplegia recovered her ability to walk in 1953 and regained both hearing and sight in 1954 — all recognized as miraculous in 1956.

From 1973 to 1981 in Akita, Japan, a wooden statue of Mary in a convent reportedly wept, bled, and perspired on 101 occasions, with fluids analyzed by a forensic specialist as human in origin.

A wooden statue of the Virgin Mary at the Institute of the Handmaids of the Eucharist in Akita, Japan wept on 101 documented occasions between 1973 and 1981, with tears and blood analyzed as human biological fluids; Bishop Ito approved veneration in 1984.

Beginning August 2000, thousands of witnesses in Assiut, Egypt reported luminous figures and glowing doves over St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church over a period of months, with Coptic Pope Shenouda III affirming the apparitions' validity.

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.'

Between November 1932 and January 1933, five Belgian children reported 33 apparitions of the Virgin Mary appearing above a hawthorn tree near a convent school in Beauraing, Belgium.

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.

Beginning in 1981, several students at a school in Kibeho, Rwanda, reported Marian apparitions that included visions of mass violence and rivers of blood — interpreted after the 1994 Rwandan genocide as prophetic.

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 September 19, 1846, two young French shepherd children reported a weeping apparition on a mountain near La Salette who delivered a message of penance; the event was approved by the Church in 1851 but subsequently complicated by the visionaries' divergent later claims.

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.

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.

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.

On January 17, 1871, four children in the French village of Pontmain reported seeing an apparition of a tall woman in the night sky surrounded by stars; adults present saw only a bright star, and a ceasefire followed within days.

On the night of December 10-11, 2009, a luminous figure described as the Virgin Mary appeared over the domes of the Coptic Orthodox Virgin Mary church in Warraq al-Hadar, Greater Cairo, witnessed by over 200,000 people within two weeks.

Between April 1968 and 1971, luminous phenomena appearing in the form of a robed female figure were reported repeatedly over St. Mary's Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Cairo, witnessed by hundreds of thousands including non-Christians.

A Belgian farm laborer with a compound leg fracture unhealed for eight years claimed instant healing at a replica Lourdes shrine in Oostakker, Belgium — but post-mortem bone examination introduced serious doubts.

A French man with six years of recurring right-sided paralysis and vision loss from bilateral carotid artery disorders felt sudden warmth and complete recovery at Lourdes in 1970 — recognized in 1978 but disputed by American neurologists.