MJMiracles Jar

The Top 10s

Ranked straight from each claim’s headline probability — no editorial thumb on the scale. The same method that surfaces the strongest cases is the one that sinks the weakest; that symmetry is the whole point.

The gold standard: of 173 assessed claims, exactly 4 are both clearly miraculous if true and strongly evidenced. The whole mission is making that number bigger — honestly.

Most likely authentic

The ten claims where the documentation most strongly resists a natural explanation.

1
66%

Consiglia De Martino: Ruptured Thoracic Duct Heals Before Surgery

Gold standardResists a natural explanation
2
63%

Antonietta Raco: Primary Lateral Sclerosis Healed — The 72nd Recognized Miracle

Gold standardResists a natural explanation
3
63%

Vittorio Micheli: Pelvic Sarcoma Healed — Bone Reconstruction Documented by X-ray

Gold standardResists a natural explanation
4
62%

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

Gold standardResists a natural explanation
5
55%

Sister Bernadette Moriau: 70th Lourdes Miracle — Cauda Equina Syndrome Resolved

Silver — promotableGenuinely uncertain
6
53%

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

Silver — promotableGenuinely uncertain
7
52%

Floribeth Mora Díaz: Inoperable Brain Aneurysm Disappears After John Paul II Beatification

Silver — promotableGenuinely uncertain
8
51%

Melissa Villalobos: Placental Abruption Bleeding Stops Instantly After Newman Prayer

Silver — promotableGenuinely uncertain
9
49%

Gabriel Gargam: Railroad Accident Survivor Walks After Two Years Bedridden

Bronze — contestedGenuinely uncertain
10
48%

Delizia Cirolli: Ewing's Sarcoma Vanishes Months After Lourdes Visit

Bronze — contestedGenuinely uncertain

Least likely — the clearest misses

Confessed hoaxes, exposed frauds, and claims the evidence flatly contradicts. Publishing these is what makes the list above worth anything.

1
1%

Angela of Foligno — Medieval Mystic, Questionable Preservation Claim

DisprovenStrong natural explanation
2
1%

Apollonius of Tyana: The Resurrection of a Roman Girl

DisprovenStrong natural explanation
3
1%

Blessed Imelda Lambertini — The Child Who Died at First Communion

DisprovenStrong natural explanation
4
1%

Joan of Arc 'Relics' — Confirmed 20th-Century Forgery

DisprovenStrong natural explanation
5
1%

Our Lady of Las Lajas (Miraculous Image in Stone)

UnprovenStrong natural explanation
6
1%

Eucharistic Miracle of Santarém

UnprovenStrong natural explanation
7
2%

Reinhard Bonnke's Africa Crusade Healing Claims (General Pattern)

UnprovenStrong natural explanation
8
2%

The Cock Lane Ghost

DisprovenStrong natural explanation
9
2%

The Cottingley Fairies: A Photographic Hoax Confessed 65 Years Later

DisprovenStrong natural explanation
10
2%

The Odor of Sanctity

UnprovenStrong natural explanation

Percentages are the editors’ calibrated estimates — never 0 or 100, because certainty isn’t earned in either direction. Each entry links to the full evidence ledger and reasoning, and every badge is defined on the methodology page. How ratings and tiers work →