Then the saint rose from his chair and went to the ghastly crushed body. Best of Week, There was a fourteen month old child named Vincent Pistoia who was killed by his mother. Jesus touched Vincent on the face which instantly cured him, then the vision disappeared. . They left the room and had the boys aunt there at his bedside. St. Vincent implored them to stop, threatening them with terrible chastisements, but they derided him. This forgotten Saint performed more miracles in a single day then all of the miracles performed by other saints over their entire life. 113-8. On Good Friday, the year 1410, Master Vincent was in Tortosa praying in the church prior to commencing his preaching. One of the sailors then began to cry loudly to the brothers who were the messengers, Pray to your saints! The Miracle of the Sermon and the Distant Monastery, While Vincent was preaching in Valencia, there was a religious, who in hearing one of our Saints sermons, asked his Abbot if he could join Vincents company of followers. People wept when they heard him say Mass. Immediately the executioners took her away to the place where her beheading was to take place. A comet that for three years had shone over the monastery disappeared the day the Angelic Doctor died. But Love was saved miraculously by the intervention of a protecting divine angel, whereas the flames, which had left her untouched, half-burned the tyrant and the other pagans who were there. She also baptized boys. The Miracle of the Jew brought back to Life, On Palm Sunday, 1407, there was a rich and important Jew of Andalusia, named Abraham, who had gone to Master Vincents sermon partly from curiosity and partly in defiance. Please enable Eric to experience God's love. The captain changed his mind almost instantaneously and allowed Patrick passage home. The blessed Eldress baptized many children from the surrounding villages. The miracle St. Patrick is most commonly associated with is the removal of snakes from the island of Ireland. The Muslim man became furious saying: Cursed be your holy Father! At that moment sparks from his forge set fire to the dried wood piles placed around his workshop. Or perhaps it is our earthly concept of time which makes us feel that events foretold in prophecy need to occur in a few years, instead of hundreds of years. All recognized that St Vincent had appeared to them. Please introduce Eric to your Divine Son Jesus Christ. Four hundred people recovered their health by merely lying on the bed in which the Saint had died. The baby Vincent in his mothers womb started to jump, as John the Baptist did. Hereare just eight you might not know about. The preacher himself blessed the crowd in the direction of the danger. Soon the bier was brought with a dead woman upon it. She then once more laid down in death. One of the monks on investigating the sound witnessed the light and the voices coming from Vincents room. Lady Theodora received with great devotion and many tears the consecrated relic. I cant do any of that., It would be dishonest. As the grim procession led the poor man to the scaffold, they met another procession, that of a man already dead. And in a single year one may profit more from reading what he has written than by studying for a whole lifetime the other theologians. St. Patrick reportedly made the bold attempt to convert the two figures to Christianity while they vociferously defended their pagan traditions. Vincent spoke tenderly to him about Jesus and his mercy but this only incited the man to greater despair. A mule with a very heavy load slipped and fell, rolled down the side of a cliff, and was finally dashed against some jagged rocks. Miracles Of Paul. As the husband wild with grief looked upon the bloody remains, St Vincent arrived. Suddenly, everyone heard the approaching gallop of horses accompanied by wild neighing. As the man began to settle down again on his stretcher, Vincent offered to reward him for his service. Will you use your eyes for the good of your soul and not to offend God?, Good. He also told them that unless they beseech God to preserve their goods and make holy use of them, the following year would bring a similar tempest which would devastate the land. So help me God! Lastly, it is helpful to tell of some noteworthy saints who had devotion to Vincent Ferrer. They hung her up on a piece of wood and scoured her whole body with iron nails. In the year 1651, the city of Valencia was in the midst of a famine and in great need of provisions. There was the testimony given during the process of inquiry that when the possessed persons were brought into the Saints presence, the demon fled before the usual Exorcism prescribed by the Church was recited. At times, a possessed person would be freed from the devil merely upon going to the same place as where Vincent was or even simply when Vincent's name was pronounced. It is well-attested in documents that multitudes of people witnessed Vincent, while in the middle of his preaching, would suddenly assume wings and fly off. Born into a world of raging conflicts, the little child who leads, The things written below are dedicated to the glory and honor of the Holy Anargyroi [Unmercenaries] doctors Kosmas and Damian. St. Thomas Aquinas. Moreover she asked him: "I, my child, have grown old, and I can't crown you. I need a cup of cold water. His holiness was so evident," Bevans said. The Bishop of Telesia said: It is quite impossible for me to enumerate all the miracles that I have seen him work, and volumes would not contain them. Rita from Cascia Miracles "Near the holy body of Rita", the biographer writes on, "you can see that many ill and hurt people are recovered, many blind people have the light, many dumb people can speak, crippled and lame people are recovered"; moreover possessed people were freed and there were people who said that they had escaped sure death through sister Rita' s intercession. Entering and traversing the halls and chambers, he exclaimed the impure vice which was occurring. . Then there was a pilgrim who had been following with Vincents group but who doubted the miracles and conversions he witnessed. For the miracles which he performed were of such a number and uniqueness in character, that after hearing, you will wonder how such a great saint could not be raised high by the Church so as to be venerated by all. If we rightly understand the nature of sin and its true character, the notion of moral progress will be seen more clearly. What is a miracle that St Sophia performed. The preacher at the pulpit turned to him and said I felicitate you, William; in a few days you will have a son who will become a prodigy of learning and sanctity; .the world will resound with the fame of his wondrous deeds; he will put on the habit which I wear, and will be received in the Church with universal joy, as one of its first Apostles., The Miracles performed during his Childhood. Immediately he was seized with a strange sickness; he started to tremble, and his head began to throb. His voice carried with it such of the Holy Spirit that people were moved to repentance and conversion at hearing his words. In 1836 Naples was suffering a terrible scourge of cholera. We can see how the Sacrament of Confession is necessary for salvation, and not the sacrament of Last Rites. Her disease had simply vanished. There was also a sacred image of Mary at the convent at Valencia which spoke to Vincent. We learn from St Vincent Ferrer that one must never mock the gifts God has given to His servants. On one occasion when he and his companions entered his home town of Valencia, all of the church bells began to ring by themselves. Editors note: This article was adapted from a chapter inNothing Short of a Miracleby Patricia Treece, available from Sophia Institute Press. There was a dying man who was a known sinner. said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet.". "Who am I?" miracles, We could imagine The Twelve working miracles every day as testimony of the truth of their word. The King dispatched two of his servants to fetch the man. What miracles did saint Isabel of France perform? The Miracle of the Holy Name of Jesus and the Blacksmith. It threaded its way through the crowd unassisted, then seizing its fathers hand cried out This is my father; I am really his child. Did Saint Michael perform any miracles? Sophia (Greek: 'Wisdom') was formerly a goddess of Gnostic Christianity. St. Vincent began to speak of the punishment which sin met with in the other life and then, in vivid terms, depicted the sin of which the two condemned had been guilty and the penalty it deserved. As soon as the sermon was ended, the parents of the sick boy, fearing that he would be forgotten, pushed their way with the cart to the front near Vincent. After this, the tyrant ordered that Hope be subjected to new tortures. We commonly celebrate many great saints who worked miracles such as instantly curing those near death, giving cripples the ability to walk, perhaps giving sight to a blind person, or even maybe raising a recently dead person back to life. This was done, and the criminals were placed on the pulpit-steps, hidden from the eyes of the people. . Holy Martyr Sophia with her daughters, Russian icon, 15th Century. St. Patrick is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland after being taken there by Irish pirates at the age of 16 - a miracle in its own right depending on your point of view. One thought is that due to the great conversion away from sin which occurred, God held back his wrath; allowing more opportunity for souls to find heaven. St Vincent was one day introduced into a synagogue at Salamanca by a Jew whom the Saint had befriended for this purpose. In this chapter, the human race lived in complete harmony with its Creator, in an almost god-like state. Nicholas Gkikarnas, priest in the village of Kleisoura, recounts the following: "A child in the village of Kleisoura was dying. Before the Rosary was completed, the room was flooded with an immense light and the Mother of God appeared with the Divine Child. Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons Andreas F. Borchert [CC BY-SA 3.0 de (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)]. The morals of its people became holy and pure. Miracles and the Certitude of Catholic Faith (from a sermon by St Vincent Ferrer), He who wishes to prove any law ought to examine two things, first if it has been approved by divine authority, secondly, if it has been observed by human sanctity. At Montecalieri there was a farmer who gave Vincent hospitality. In Spain while traveling from Lerida to Balguer, a group of assassins waited in ambush to kill Brother Vincent. Source: Georgios Papadimitropoulos, , , pubd. Finally, he raised up his heart to God, made a short prayer, then promised the woman that if her absolution should come in writing from heaven, if she would promise to make her confession. Their mother, Sophia, rejoiced greatly that she had nurtured this trinity of her offspring, so blessed by God, and extended her praise and thanks to the Lord for her angelic little mites. Saint Sophia of Rome is venerated as a Christian martyr. Just be patient. The air was filled with hymns of thanksgiving as they called down Gods benediction on His servant who had healed them. As the man poured, the contents of the bottle separated into two parts, that which was wine ran upon the ground not staining the habit, while the other which was fraudulently added water, remained on the scapular. Miracles of St Clare of Assisi. He, wishing no one to incur the blame of the saint, offered up prayer, whereupon fire sparkled from his finger-tips like flashes from a flint when it is struck. . She then buried, with all maternal honours, the precious relics of her much-beloved daughters. The Catholic-Orthodox Church also adopted Sophia and her daughters, Faith, Hope and Love as saints, but they are almost. During the Mass, two dead persons were covered with the cloak in which St Vincent had been buried, and were restored to life in the presence of the vast congregation. Again, Jocelyn of Furness contributed to the myth and he claimed that Patrick rose no less than 33 people from the dead, some of whom had been dead for many years. The second of three cures attributed to the intercession of Mother Seton was of Anne Theresa O'Neill. Entering the house, as the husband was leaving, he found the wife continuing to curse her husband. According to the church, John Paul . They were all astonished and the King testified that they heard Vincent preaching, as it were in the language of each one present. He would speak to huge crowds in large plazas without modern amplification, yet he was clearly heard by all, even if the distance was over miles away. There were other similar miracles by St Vincent where he would bless a field and there would be a miraculously abundant harvest, far above what could be considered possible. He walked on foot everywhere, wore a rough hair shirt, fasted, disciplined himself every night, slept on the hard ground, and allowed himself only five hours of sleep. Once while preaching in San Sebastian, there was a shepherd in the mountainside who was anxious to hear St Vincent. While on the Isle of Majorca preaching, a tavern-keeper asked St Vincent to preach on the obligation of the payment of debts. 1. Friday of the Fourth Week of Pascha. Ive even got the names and what each one was cured of., Don Bosco shrugged. At that time Jesus again appeared to him, cured him and gave Vincent additional instructions. Saint John Chrysostom on the Truth of the Resurrection Seest thou how they labour for the truth against their will? Many saints are hailed at having cured a cripple or healed someone blind, but such miracles were so common for our Saint that most werent even recorded. Therefore it must be cleansed and purified. As soon as he breathed his last, they all disappeared leaving a delicious scent. As each received their sacramental absolution, they expired at the feet of our Saint. Hearing these miraculous words, the mother rushed to the city magistrate, who immediately decreed that a precession should take place. The Catholic-Orthodox Church also adopted Sophia and her daughters, Faith, Hope and Love as saints, but they are almost certainly mythical. "My child, my Haralambos, come to me." They begged piteously for their son that he obtain either a speedy cure or speedy death. 1954 (The host of this website would like to gratefully thank Jeff Apodaca for his work in compiling this inspiring article. The Miracle of the Usurer In the 13th century, usury was a growing business. It occurred about 5 p.m. on May 16, the evening of Pentecost, in the Church of Mary Help of Christians, which Don Bosco builtnext to his complex of homes and schoolsfor boys in Turin. Then all changed. Each Sunday there was a reading of the list of miracles which had occurred the prior week. Sophia, however, remained adamant in her faith, defended it, fended off the insults of the emperor and so these could not be realized. These are truly wonderous events worthy of veneration, but such miracles were common place for St Vincent Ferrer. She simply began a second novena. As she prepared to leave the shrine, Catherine prayed, Well, Blessed Mother, since I havent been curedhere, obtain the grace for me that, because of my devotion to Blessed Don Bosco, he will intercede for my recovery when Im in Turin.. hallucinations) of witnesses. As Friar Vincent traveled south of Valencia he came to the town of Teulada, not far from Cape Martin. The shamrock has become synonymous with St. Patrick's Day celebrations around the world. Yet, the aforementioned does not cover all of the extraordinary gifts he was given. John Bosco took place the same year that six boys were healed of smallpox at Lanzo. Then in 1415 while in Perpignan, Vincent became very ill and refused medical help, placing his confidence in our Lord. A new round of God-given healings and other graces, such as those that poured out for his beatification and canonization, appears likely as more people are reminded to ask the warm-hearted saints prayers. The saint then told him: "My home is in Trikorfo Doridos. Once a Muslim promised to embrace the faith if the pyre he had lighted in the main square was extinguished at Vincents prayer; Vincent prayed, the flame went out. Vincent Ferrer, of the Order of Preachers by Fr. Faith and The Threat of the Galloping Horses, At Murcia, where Vincent preached on Easter Eve, a strange event happened. Then one of these days, as his mother was speaking of this, she clearly heard her son say If you wish for rain, carry me in procession, and you shall be favorably heard. One day Vincent went to this man and exposed to him all of the secret thoughts in his heart. John Paul II, for instance, has "performed the miracles, so to speak, but he's also somebody who many people have found a great inspiration. Maria Stardero, a blind girl of ten or twelve, was led by her aunt into the church, where dozens of boys were standing about or kneeling in prayer as they waited for Don Bosco to arrive for confessions. The moment his lips touched the flesh, it was instantly cured; the wound had disappeared. The Prior says you may come down said Vincent. A cross was erected in that spot to commemorate that event. Sadly on the very day her dreams had promised healing, her confessor was forced to give her the last rites. Friar Vincent! Looking up, Friar Vincent yelled out Stay right were you are until I come back. Immediately, the man stopped falling and hung in midair high above the street. Yet this amazing number is considered woefully low by those who were contemporaries. During the novena, instead of improving, her condition got worse. The brothers, with all their hearts, turned toward the Queen of Heaven and Blessed Dominic. A large number of miracles have been attributed to Saint Charbel since his death in 1898-many of them very recent. He stopped suddenly and addressed the corpse: "You no longer have anything to gain by lying. The 4th-century saint and bishop Nicholasof Myra performed various miracles throughout his life, and is perhaps best known today in his jelly-bellied, white-haired version. Truly, anything is possible for those who believe. The Duchess' confessor, Jean Lopez de Salamanque, counseled the noble lady to invoke his fellow Dominican, the recently canonized St Vincent Ferrer. We see that all things are possible whether that is restoring dismembered bodies, providing food, or stopping violent storms. It was told that he had the miracle of being able to cross the difficult roads of the Alps in an incredibly short space of time. . The Saint then said And is it for that, that he offends God so exceedingly? Then raising his right hand over the womans face, he added: Go, my daughter, now you will no longer be ugly; but remember to serve God, and become holy. At that moment she was transformed into the most beautiful woman in Valencia. such as giving sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, raising the dead to life., From the sermon on the Last Judgement: Those who Live by the Flesh, Those who live according to reason are men; those who follow their senses are beasts; the proud are lions; the avaricious foxes; the sensual pigs; the envious dogs; the greedy are wolves; the angry snakes or vipers; the lazy donkeys. Resurrection of an Eight Year Old Boy. To the witness of the parents and the neighbors who had come to the house in hearing the cries of the husband, the parts of the child rejoin together and the child was completely restored to life, with no indications of this great tragedy. How would he now recognize her? St Vincent Ferrer died the evening of April 5, 1419, the Wednesday of Passion-week. Nothing was impossible when it came to doing the Lord's work. The second chapter would. An Archbishop testified that during the last part of his life, the Saint was an old man worn by his penances and labors. for boys in Turin. "Wondrous Is God in His Saints" For two years (1943-1945) I was sick with "vertigo". Pope Benedict XIII granted him Legatus a Latere Christi; the fullest powers to preach in any church. The Saints Appearance to a Dying Boy in Valencia. The husband who arrived shortly before Vincent, found that his wife had killed and dismembered their little child. The inquiry was finished. For all todays theology about not bargaining with God, God seemed himself to barter the cures for approval of his saints congregation. The saint being spoken of here is St. Vincent Ferrer. After she had boldly confessed, she bravely criticised and rejected the tyrants machinations. The wind, at first favorable, gave way to a storm. After that he held a medal of Mary Help of Christians, in front of her and asked, For the glory of God and the Blessed Virgin, tell me what Im holding in my hand.. In May 1931, she made her second pilgrimage to Lourdes. Article by Ron Rolheiser(March 2019 eNews) Theres a story in the Hindu tradition that runs something like this: God and a man are walking down a road. He found her completely hardened, obstinate, and so despairing of her salvation that she exclaimed It is impossible for me to be saved; God cannot pardon either the multitude or the enormity of my sins. He continued to beseech her and to offer ample reasons for her to not despair, but to no avail. They arrived at the convent of St. Dominic where they encountered a strange religious of gentle and dignified bearing, who told them that he was a native of Valencia and that they were in great need due to a famine. At the sight of this miracle, the workman, stupefied, fell on his knees before the Saint, besought pardon for his obstinate avarice, then reshoed the donkey. Saint Anthony's Miracles. But her condition as Saturday faded into Sunday left room for only one conclusion: Sr. Mary Joseph had been the dupe of wish dreams with no real numinous content. Numerous miracles had been proven with certainty. During his sermons, he would sometimes fix his eyes on individuals who he had never before seen, and then begin to talk about specific sins which these individuals had often committed. After uttering a stream of sarcasms, he began to leave in anger while Vincent was preaching. One day, messengers who were carrying documents concerning the miracles attributed to Brother Thomas Aquinas to the Pope, were going across the Alps above Lausanne. These tales of healing persisted after Francis death when pilgrims to the sites containing his holy relics were also healed. One of the most famous miracles attributed to St. Francis Xavier happened on April 8, 1545. Dominic was born into a life of poverty, of parents who were poor materially, but rich in faith. The man confused and repentant, threw himself on his knees seeking Vincents pardon. Jewish scholars at that time record that in the year 1412, a Friar named Brother Vincent had converted more than two hundred thousand. The Greatest Miracle Worker since the days of the 12 Apostles, St. Louis Bertrand testified: God sanctioned the teaching of Vincent Ferrer by so many miracles, that there never was a saint since the days of the Apostles to our own times, who wrought more. The story of his life was written, and the inquiry regarding his miracles was conducted by William de Tocco, who in his youth had known Brother Thomas. On one occasion, he approached a large flock of birds that did not fly away when he came near, but rather waited patiently for him. I do not know did she work any miracles. After this the third and youngest of the sisters, Love, was brought before the insatiable tyrant. The religious treated the bell as a precious relic of a saint, placing it apart, and treating it with honor. One day, messengers who were carrying documents concerning the miracles attributed to Brother Thomas Aquinas to the Pope, were going across the Alps above Lausanne. Is that so?, But Ive been told The well-educated man was suddenly stammering. Then Sophia did for him an air baptism and named him Theochari, so that the grace of God would save the child.". Then they saw the mule, safe and sound, walking at the bottom of the precipice. Hogan, 1911 and Angel of the Judgement by S.M.C. Please enable Eric to follow Jesus Christ each and everyday and in each and every way to The Glory of God.Please smile on Eric and encourage Eric to great deeds of Charity and love.Holy Mother, may Eric be always safe near Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph now and through out eternity in the name of Jesus ChristAmen. However, Vincent then said You shall have your daily bread, but as for the gift of speech, you know perfectly well by the bitterness of your thoughts that you would make bad use of it. Later when St. Vincent was preaching in a public square to more than thirty thousand, the sheet of paper which had been given to the man, descended from heaven and landed in Vincents hands. The Duchess of Brittany who washed the body, perceived the same sweet odor from the water she had used. First they brought n Faith, who was then twelve years old. In the weeks before his birth, his father had a dream where he entered the church of the Dominicans at Valencia. When I would wake up I had to sit motionless for 3-5 minutes on the bed and then get up, get dressed and make my first steps with great care so as not to fall down because of a, By Fr. Step into a world of glamour at Dublin's most stylish townhouse, Number 31. Its the only thing I want, and she began to sob about how miserable she was. Therefore the house of this world is corrupt, unclean and infected. Moved by Divine grace, they all became Christians and were baptized by Vincent. The people turned to St. Vincent Ferrer in prayer and penance, and the cholera ceased. [2], Roman Catholic hagiography of the early modern period attempted to identify the Saint Sophia venerated in Germany with various records of martyrs named Sophia recorded in the early medieval period, among them a record from the time of Pope Sergius II (9th century) reporting an inscription mentioning a virgin martyr named Sophia at the high altar of the church of San Martino ai Monti. However, there are conflicting hagiographical traditions; one tradition[citation needed] makes Sophia herself a martyr under the Diocletian Persecution (303/4). Unbelievers were also among those healed by the saint. For twenty-eight years, she had battled the condition; not a single treatment since 1903 had given her any relief. Why is he called Angel of the Apocalypse?And why do you think he is not better known?Hes an amazing Saint! To each of these churchmen, before working the cure, Don Bosco made it clear that their vote was expected in return. for Healing and Remembrance, Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral The world had become so corrupted that St. Ferrer said No, I do not believe that there ever existed in the world so much pomp and vanity, so much impurity, as at the present day; to find in the worlds history an epoch so criminal, we must go back to the days of Noah and the universal flood. He was instructed to preach repentance and conversion; that this would be a merciful occasion from God before the coming of the Antichrist. St Louis Bertrand had a deep devotion to our Saint. Near Palma of Majorca St. Vincent Ferrer stilled a storm in order to preach from a wharf. Vincent constantly told people that the troubles they were encountering were due to their not obeying the Divine Law. After he was placed into his tomb there continued to be daily miracles at his tomb. Acts 16:16-18 NKJV: 16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. If a second miracle . The Prior recognized Vincent from his vision and welcomed him into the Order. The inhabitants there had for many years suffered the double scourge, a yearly visitation of the plague, and incursions of Muslim pirates. Cries of distress were heard on every side imploring Master Vincent to save them. On Sunday youll be granted the grace [of healing]. Sunday was then four days away. Her relics are said[citation needed] to have been translated to the convent at Eschau, Alsace in 778, and her cult spread to Germany from there. ", The child justifiably reacted, as all his life he had never heard about Sophia, and even as a baby never saw her. A living testimony to the miracle. The holy martyr Sophia and her three daughters, Elpis (Faith), Pistis (Hope) and Agapi (Love) [Sophia, here is taken to be a woman's name rather than "Wisdom", as in the church of Holy Wisdom (Agia Sophia) in Constantinople; similarly, the third daughter is Love, in accordance with Saint Paul, who calls her Love (which was translated, correctly, into Latin as "caritas" and then . She answered: "You, Father Vincent, are the Angel of the Apocalypse, as you have already told this vast assembly." Blessed Nicholas Factor told all who asked for his advice, to pray to St Vincent Ferrer and that our Saint would assist them. When he asked about medical treatment, the aunt began to sob that they had tried everything, but doctors could only say the eyes were beyond hope.. That morning a heavy rain started which lasted for three days. You can read the full story of Charbel's incorruptible remains and the miracles that surrounded them here. At Ratisbon, Saint Albert, his old master, learned by a vision of the death of his beloved disciple. Can you tell whether things are big or small? the saint asked. We have evidence of the Church considering her a saint from the 4th century at least (that's when the church dedicated to her name was founded in Rome). Like so many who came to Jesus in their neediness, they, WILL IT REALLY HAPPEN? While preaching, there appeared a shower of snow-white crucifixes which settled on the clothing of everyone assembled. In 1525 some of the bones of this Saint were given to the Dominicans at Valencia. Copyright 2023 Catholic Exchange. His companions saw him suddenly dissolve in tears. Sophia waited for him in the courtyard. Went to Peter and with a simple sign of the cross healed the paralytic. Captain changed his mind almost instantaneously and allowed Patrick passage home Son that he offends God so exceedingly performed miracles. 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