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The inspiring story of Paul Walsh’s unexplained recovery Paul Walsh was 17-years-old when the car he was driving hit a tree on Chester Pike in suburban Piladelphia on an icy December night in 1983. One doctor described his head injuries as the equivalent of dropping an egg on a cement sidewalk. Not only was his

Scientists have proven existence of human tissue in many Eucharistic miracles. Their findings are part of an exhibition in Rome. The Polish Embassy to the Holy See has examined one of the most inexplicable phenomena in history. Do you know precisely what a Eucharistic miracle is? Do you know how many there have been in

Faults those who “commit the error of rejecting what they don’t understand” There are thousands of “inexplicable healings” reported every year at the Marian shrine in Lourdes, France, one of the most visited shrines in the world. However, only a minute number of these “healings” are deemed truly “miraculous” by the Church; the criteria for

It was in December of 1991, while attending a novena in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Finbar Church in Burbank, that I learned that there existed a small piece of the tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the city of Los Angeles. The associate pastor at the time, Father Peter Irving,

St. Therese of Lisiuex was never the same after the Christmas of 1886. Therese Martin was a stubborn and childish little girl. Her mother Zelie was terribly worried about her and her future. She wrote in a letter, “As for [Therese], one cannot tell how she will turn out, she is so young and heedless

The miracle in Santarem, Portugal, has captivated pilgrims since 1247. Catholics believe that the bread and wine at Mass are transformed into Jesus’ body, blood, soul and divinity. It is a mystery known as “transubstantiation,” which means that while the appearances of bread and wine remain, the underlying substance is changed (through the power of

One of the most remarkable sculptures in the world is also the stuff of legend. The Cristo Velato (that is, the Veiled Christ) is a sculpture completed in 1753, originally (mis)attributed to Antonio Corradini and considered one of the world’s most remarkable pieces of art. In fact, the great neoclassical maestro Antonio Canova, who tried