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.
4 claims
2% authenticProvidence
Strong natural explanation
A 19-year-old trapped in a crushed car, her vital signs dropping, asked rescuers to pray aloud; a priest appeared on a blocked rural highway, anointed her, and vanished — absent from every scene photograph — and a week of angel speculation ended when Fr. Patrick Dowling identified himself, having simply parked up the road after a Sunday Mass.
Explainedprovidence·Highway 19 near Center, Missouri, USA
Katie Lentz and the 'Angel Priest' of Highway 19 — Resolved (2013)
Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?
A 19-year-old trapped in a crushed car, her vital signs dropping, asked rescuers to pray aloud; a priest appeared on a blocked rural highway, anointed her, and vanished — absent from every scene photograph — and a week of angel speculation ended when Fr. Patrick Dowling identified himself, having simply parked up the road after a Sunday Mass.
39% authenticLikely a natural explanation
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.
Silver · promotablehealing·Buenos Aires, Argentina
Candela Giarda: Catastrophic Childhood Encephalopathy Resolved — John Paul I's Miracle
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.
13% authentic
Strong natural explanation
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.
Unproveneucharistic·Bolsena (miracle) and Orvieto (papal court), Italy
Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena-Orvieto (1263)
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.
4% authentic
Strong natural explanation
John Vianney's body was found dried and darkened after death and bears a wax mask over the face; his heart, removed in 1904, is separately venerated as a first-class relic and described as incorrupt, though it has undergone a century of conservation treatment.
Unprovenrelics·Basilique d'Ars, Ars-sur-Formans, France
John Vianney (Curé d'Ars) — Dried Body, Wax Mask, Incorrupt Heart
John Vianney's body was found dried and darkened after death and bears a wax mask over the face; his heart, removed in 1904, is separately venerated as a first-class relic and described as incorrupt, though it has undergone a century of conservation treatment.