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.
10 claims
3% authentic
Strong natural explanation
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.
Disprovensigns·Trevignano Romano, Lazio, Italy
The Bleeding Madonna of Trevignano Romano — DNA, a Negative Ruling, and a Fraud Trial (2016–2024)
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.
16% authentic
Strong natural explanation
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.
Unprovenhealing·Brescia / Verona, Italy
Amanda Paola: Unborn Baby Survives Against All Odds — Paul VI's Canonization Miracle
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.
26% authentic
Likely a natural explanation
A four-year-old Baltimore girl diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia — then uniformly fatal — experienced complete remission in 1952, verified by a decade of bone marrow tests and accepted by the Vatican as a miracle for the canonization of Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Bronze · contestedhealing·Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ann O'Neill — Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Remission (1952)
A four-year-old Baltimore girl diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia — then uniformly fatal — experienced complete remission in 1952, verified by a decade of bone marrow tests and accepted by the Vatican as a miracle for the canonization of Elizabeth Ann Seton.
19% authentic
Strong natural explanation
A pregnant Salvadoran woman with life-threatening HELLP syndrome made a complete recovery after her community prayed to Blessed Oscar Romero.
Explainedhealing·El Salvador
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.
35% authentic
Likely a natural explanation
An American deacon-in-training nearly paralyzed by spinal stenosis recovered suddenly after praying to Cardinal John Henry Newman — the first miracle recognized toward Newman's canonization.
Bronze · contestedhealing·Marshfield, Massachusetts, USA
Deacon Jack Sullivan: Debilitating Spinal Stenosis Resolved After Newman Prayer
An American deacon-in-training nearly paralyzed by spinal stenosis recovered suddenly after praying to Cardinal John Henry Newman — the first miracle recognized toward Newman's canonization.
52% authenticGenuinely uncertain
A Costa Rican lawyer diagnosed with an inoperable brain aneurysm recovered completely after praying to Blessed John Paul II during his beatification broadcast.
Silver · promotablehealing·San José, Costa Rica
Floribeth Mora Díaz: Inoperable Brain Aneurysm Disappears After John Paul II Beatification
A Costa Rican lawyer diagnosed with an inoperable brain aneurysm recovered completely after praying to Blessed John Paul II during his beatification broadcast.
12% authentic
Strong natural explanation
A Bengali woman's large abdominal cyst reportedly vanished overnight after a Missionaries of Charity sister placed a medal on her abdomen, in a case used for Mother Teresa's beatification.
Explainedhealing·Patiram, West Bengal, India
Monica Besra: Abdominal Tumor Disappears After Mother Teresa Medal
A Bengali woman's large abdominal cyst reportedly vanished overnight after a Missionaries of Charity sister placed a medal on her abdomen, in a case used for Mother Teresa's beatification.
23% authentic
Likely a natural explanation
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.
Unprovenapparition·Institute of the Handmaids of the Eucharist, Akita, Japan
Our Lady of Akita (Weeping and Bleeding Statue)
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.
3% authentic
Strong natural explanation
When John XXIII was exhumed in 2001 after 37 years, his face appeared intact and serene; the Vatican explicitly attributed this to embalming with formalin, hermetic sealing in multiple coffins, and Prof. Golia's proprietary preservation treatment — not to miracle.
Explainedrelics·St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Pope John XXIII — 'Remarkably Well Preserved,' Not Miraculous
When John XXIII was exhumed in 2001 after 37 years, his face appeared intact and serene; the Vatican explicitly attributed this to embalming with formalin, hermetic sealing in multiple coffins, and Prof. Golia's proprietary preservation treatment — not to miracle.
37% authenticLikely a natural explanation
A French nun with rapidly advancing Parkinson's disease wrote legibly and was free of symptoms overnight after her congregation prayed to the recently deceased John Paul II.
Bronze · contestedhealing·France (congregation house, unspecified city)
Sister Marie Simon-Pierre: Parkinson's Reversed After John Paul II Prayer
A French nun with rapidly advancing Parkinson's disease wrote legibly and was free of symptoms overnight after her congregation prayed to the recently deceased John Paul II.