Thursday, September 8, 2011

More on St. Dominic and Miracles

The following are from Miracles And Manifestations Of The Holy Spirit In The History Of The Church, taken from page 110 of the Kindle edition.


Summary of Miracles Attributed to St. Dominic


One day, preaching before a church against the heresies of the day, St. Dominic found himself, with a brother from the Cistercian convent, suddenly transported into the church, without any one having opened the door.  At another time his valise and books fell into a river, and when, after several days, they were "fished up again", they were not even wetted.  Often while traveling the rain fell in torrents, without one single drop falling on him, that he might reach his journey's end quite dry.  As he never took money about with him, he had to ask free passage across ferries.  On one occasion the boatman refused to ferry him across without his fare; so he lifted his eyes to heaven, and found at his feet the required money.  In the convent of St. Vincent of Caatreg, the cruficix spoke to him, and told him to persevere in well-doing, and to remember that saints were made perfect by suffering.  In the same place, while at mass, his fervor was so great that he was lifted into the air full five feet from the ground, of which fact the prior himself and the canons were personal witnesses.  He saved miraculously from drowning forty English pilgrims going to St. James's, who had entered a boat too weak and had been thrown into the Garonne.
Brewer, Dictionary of Miracles, pp. 231-232.
Citing Les Petits Bollandistes, Vol 9, p. 284.

Raising the Dead

The son of a matron died while his mother was listening to a sermon by St. Dominic. the dead body was taken to the monk and laid at his feet.  The "blessed father", moved with compassion, made on the lad the sign of the cross, and taking him by the hand, the dead child rose, stood on his feet, and returned home in perfect health. 

A carpenter, working in the convent of St. Sistus, fell into a pit, and the earth falling on him crushed him to death.  St. Dominic ordered him to be dug out, prayed overe him, and he returned to life wholly unhurt.

The nephew of Cardinal Stephen, whose name was Neapolion, being thrown from his horse, had his neck broke, and was killed.  St. Dominic, going to the spot of the accident, prayed thrice, saying the same words; then taking the young man by the hand, he said with a loud voice, "Neapolion, I say unto you, in the name of Christ, Arise."  Forthwith he arose, and St. Dominic led him to his uncle.
Brewer, Dictionary of Miracles, pp. 80-81.
Citing Edward Kinesman, Lives of the Saints, 1623.

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