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Sunrise over the Sea of Galilee, with a fishing boat
Sea of Galilee · Photo: Grant Barclay, CC BY 2.0

Miracles

Healings and wonders attributed to the saints, with their sources.

St. John Maximovitch

1896–1966 · Orthodox

St. John Maximovitch knew what it meant to lose a home. As a young man, he fled Russia with his family. As an Orthodox bishop, he helped others start again. He cared for children in Shanghai, visited sick people, and asked American leaders to help stranded refugees. His work later took him to Europe and San Francisco. People remembered his long prayers, his care for those in need, and the way he kept in touch as children grew up.

  1. 1Sergei Bogatsky's recovery
  2. 2A healing reported at the relics

St. Thérèse of Lisieux

1873–1897 · Catholic

As a small child she rolled on the floor in fury, and at about three she took a whole basket of doll clothes, saying, "I choose everything!" At twenty-four, dying of tuberculosis in a Normandy convent, she overheard a sister wonder what anyone could write about her, since she had never done anything worth speaking about. Thérèse of Lisieux wanted to be a great saint and found she was a grain of sand. In her last eighteen months even Heaven went dark for her, and she went on loving. How did the nun who had done nothing worth speaking about become one of the most loved saints of modern times, and a Doctor of the Church?

  1. 1Abbé Charles Anne, a seminarian with tuberculosis, Bayeux, 1906
  2. 2Sister Louise de Saint-Germain, Ustaritz, September 1916
  3. 3Maria Pellemans at the tomb, Lisieux, March 1923
  4. 4Sister Gabriella Trimusi, Parma, June 1923