The claims

Gardell Martin — 101 Minutes Without a Pulse, Full Recovery (2015)

A 22-month-old Pennsylvania boy swept into a 34-degree stream was pulseless through 101 minutes of continuous CPR, then recovered almost completely — a documented outcome physicians attribute to protective hypothermia.

Gen. Eric Smith — Cardiac Arrest, and a CPR Instructor on the Right Block (2023)

Naturally possible — was the timing more than coincidence?

When the Commandant of the Marine Corps collapsed in sudden cardiac arrest on an evening run a block from his Washington home, the strangers who reached him included a certified CPR instructor visiting from Seattle, whose ten minutes of compressions carried the general to full recovery and return to duty.

Lewis Roberts — Breathing Hours Before His Organs Were to Be Donated (2021)

Four days after being struck by a van, 18-year-old Lewis Roberts was declared brain-stem dead and his family consented to organ donation; hours before the retrieval surgery his sister saw breathing activity on his monitor, the declaration was reversed, and he went on to speak, walk miles, and live at home.

Munira Abdulla — Speaking Again After 27 Years in a Minimally Conscious State (2018)

An Emirati woman left unresponsive by a 1991 car crash regained speech in June 2018 — calling her son's name from a German hospital bed — after 27 years in which her family never stopped caring for her or praying for her recovery.

Barbara Cummiskey Snyder — Multiple Sclerosis Remission (1981)

A woman diagnosed with severe multiple sclerosis at age 15, admitted to hospice in 1978, reported an instantaneous and complete recovery on June 7, 1981, with post-healing physician notes confirming absence of all prior MS findings.

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.

Cecilia Maribel Flores: HELLP Syndrome Recovery — Oscar Romero's Canonization Miracle

A pregnant Salvadoran woman with life-threatening HELLP syndrome made a complete recovery after her community prayed to Blessed Oscar Romero.

Delia Knox — Claimed Walking Recovery After 22 Years of Paralysis (2010)

A gospel singer paralyzed in a 1987 car accident stood and walked during a revival service in 2010 after 22 years in a wheelchair, captured on video and widely circulated, but with no publicly verified medical records before or after the event.

Edeltraud Fulda: Addison's Disease Cured at Lourdes

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.

Jake Finkbonner: Flesh-Eating Bacteria Arrested After Kateri Tekakwitha Relic

A five-year-old Lummi boy's rapidly progressing necrotizing fasciitis stopped spreading and he made a full recovery after his family placed a relic of Kateri Tekakwitha on his body.

James Fulton Engstrom: Stillborn 61 Minutes, Full Recovery — Fulton Sheen's Miracle

An Illinois newborn with no heartbeat for 61 minutes, given up for dead, suddenly revived with no lasting brain damage — proposed as the miracle for Archbishop Fulton Sheen's beatification.

John Traynor: WWI Wounded Sailor Walks — The 71st Recognized Miracle

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.

Marie Bigot: Blindness, Deafness, and Hemiplegia All Resolved

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.

Matteo Pio Colella: Full Recovery from Fulminant Bacterial Meningitis

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.

Serge Perrin: Recurring Hemiplegia and Ocular Lesions Healed at Lourdes

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.

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.

The Panagia Soumela Icon — Exile, Concealment, and Recovery

The icon central to Pontic Greek Orthodox identity, attributed by tradition to St. Luke the Evangelist, was secretly buried by monks in 1923 at the time of the Lausanne population exchange and successfully recovered and transferred to Greece in 1931.

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.