Is Vincent de Paul a real miracle?

Common questions

Is Vincent de Paul real or fake?

Miracles Jar's verdict is Explained: it happened — nature explains it. It happened — and nature accounts for it. On the evidence, the record is strongly attested.

Has Vincent de Paul been explained?

The event appears to have happened, but a natural explanation accounts for it — the leading account is spontaneous remission & the body's own recovery. It reads as remarkable rather than miraculous.

What is the evidence for Vincent de Paul?

Miracles Jar weighs 3 sources for this case. Points that support the claim: Initial post-death reports mentioned incorruptibility before flooding. Points that cut against it: Body fully decomposed after vault flooding — reduced to disarticulated bones; and Bones reassembled by surgeons in 1960 for 300th anniversary of death.

What is the natural explanation for Vincent de Paul?

The leading natural account is spontaneous remission & the body's own recovery. Diseases sometimes resolve without treatment, or despite it. “Spontaneous” rarely means “no mechanism” — more often it means a mechanism we are only beginning to instrument. The full breakdown shows where that explanation holds — and where it stops.

When and where did Vincent de Paul happen?

It is said to have occurred Died 1660; decomposed after initial exhumation in Chapelle de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, 95 rue de Sèvres, Paris, France.