A catalogue of the Miraculous
Miraculous Miracles™ is a devotional reference and atlas of the miracles, saints, prayers, and journeys recorded in the Catholic tradition. Its aim is to make the works of God throughout history — from the Burning Bush to Lanciano, from Cana to the Hill of Crosses — accessible for prayer, study, and pilgrimage.
The Catalogue
The Miracles
Over three hundred miracle events across ten categories — Eucharistic, Marian, Biblical, the healings of Lourdes, the mystical phenomena of the saints, the sacred images and relics. Each entry carries dates, place, an account, and links to the church or shrine that preserves it.
The Saints
Biographies of the apostles, the Doctors of the Church, the canonized popes, the great mystics, and the modern saints. For each: the major miracles attributed to them, their relics and the churches that hold them, the iconography by which they are recognized, and the prayers they composed or that are addressed to them.
The Prayers
The essential prayers of the faith, the Marian antiphons, the Eucharistic hymns, the prayers of the saints, the liturgical canticles, the Eastern tradition. Each prayer is shown in its original language (Latin, Greek, or Slavonic) and in English with its history, when it is traditionally prayed, and any indulgences attached.
The Rosary
An interactive five-decade Rosary that walks bead by bead through the four sets of mysteries (Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, Luminous), with full Douay-Rheims scripture for each mystery, the traditional fruit, sacred art, and the prayers said at every bead.
The Atlas & Journeys
Every miracle and every saint pinned to its place on an interactive world map. Toggle the journeys of Christ, of the Apostle Paul, of Peter, John, Thomas, and Andrew. The Old Testament patriarchs and prophets — Abraham, the Exodus, David, Elijah, Jonah — are drawn from Ur to Babylon.
The Devotional Calendar
The day, the week, the month of the Church — with the traditional dedication for the day (St. Joseph on Wednesdays, the Sacred Heart on Fridays, the Blessed Virgin on Saturdays), the dedication of the month, and a miracle of the day, week, and month set out for meditation.
What this is, and what it isn't
This is a devotional reference. The intent is to gather, in one place, the events the Catholic Church has chronicled as miraculous — those formally approved by the Holy See, those approved by local bishops, and those held by the unbroken tradition of the faithful — together with the saints associated with them, the prayers that the tradition has formed around them, and the geographical landscape in which they took place.
It is not a scholarly database. Verification status is noted where the Church has spoken; the rest is the long memory of the Church and of pilgrim peoples. Dates and places follow the consensus of standard reference works. Errors are mine, and corrections are welcome.
It is also not an act of teaching authority. The Church's own catechetical resources — the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the documents of the magisterium, the diocesan bishop — remain the authoritative voice for what the Church holds and teaches. This site is a doorway, not a destination.
- Scripture is quoted in the Douay-Rheims translation, the traditional Catholic English Bible. The text is in the public domain.
- Prayer texts are drawn from the long devotional tradition of the Church. Latin and Greek originals are those used in the Roman Missal, the Roman Breviary, and the liturgical books of the Eastern Churches.
- Saint biographies draw on standard reference works (Butler's Lives of the Saints; the New Catholic Encyclopedia; the Acta Sanctorum), on individual cause-of-canonization documents, on the shrines and religious communities that preserve each saint's memory, and on the Holy See's own published biographies.
- Miracle records follow the formally approved accounts where they exist (the Lourdes Medical Bureau, the dossiers of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints), the published proceedings of diocesan inquiries, and the long oral and written memory of the people of God.
- Images are sacred art and photographs of shrines drawn from Wikimedia Commons, used under the project's image-download safety controls (HTTPS-only, content-type verified, size-bounded). Where an image is not available, a gradient-toned matted placeholder takes its place.
- The map uses the open OpenFreeMap tiles over the MapLibre GL JavaScript library.
- Geographic coordinates for miracle sites, saints' shrines, and the stops of the New and Old Testament journeys are taken from the same reference works as the biographies and miracle records. For ancient places they are the historical sites where they are known (Antioch on the Orontes, the actual ruins of Capernaum); for the Exodus they are the conventionally identified locations along the traditional route.
What has changed
The site is added to and corrected as the reading goes on. Every change worth noticing is recorded here, newest first — including the corrections, because a catalogue that only ever announces additions is not telling you the whole truth about itself.
The newest saints, and the catalogue tidied
30 September 2026Ten profiles the catalogue lacked, one more company of martyrs, twelve miracles that had been told twice, and a fuller account of where Noah's ark is said to rest.
- ·The saints canonised in 2024 and 2025 who were missing: José Gregorio Hernández, María Carmen Rendiles, Maria Troncatti, Vincenza Maria Poloni, María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, Giuseppe Allamano, Marie-Léonie Paradis and Elena Guerra.
- ·The Martyrs of Damascus of 1860, canonised in 2024, join the martyr companies, with a profile for their guardian, Manuel Ruiz.
- ·Bl. Grimoaldo of the Purification, the Passionist student who died at nineteen.
- ·Twelve miracles that appeared twice on the map under different names are now told once, with the facts the two tellings disagreed on checked and settled.
- ·Noah's Ark: what Genesis says, what the Church does not say, and what this year's search at the Durupınar site has and has not found.
- ·A contact form on the Contact page, so a correction no longer needs a mail client; the privacy policy says exactly what it sends and where.
- ·The updates log on the About page is dated from the day the site opened.
Every page fits its host
29 September 2026The day after opening, the saints and prophecies indexes would not load when reached from outside the site. They are hubs now, and every long list has been split so that no page is too large to serve.
- ·The Saints page opens with the ways in — by office and by century — and each century has its own page; every saint is still reachable by following links alone.
- ·The Prophecies page leads to four movements — the lineage and birth, the ministry, the passion, the resurrection and kingdom — each on its own page.
- ·The attributions, the Eucharistic miracles and the roll of the martyrs are split over pages of a readable length.
- ·A contact page, linked from the footer, with the address the legal pages already gave.
- ·A skip-to-content link is the first thing the keyboard reaches on every page.
The site opens
28 September 2026Miraculous Miracles goes up at its own address: the atlas, the saints, the prayers, the Scripture sections and everything gathered around them, free and without an account.
- ·The atlas, with every miracle and saint in the catalogue placed on it, by category and by era.
- ·A profile for every saint, and a page for every miracle, each carrying its sources.
- ·The prayers, with the Rosary, the Divine Mercy Chaplet and the Stations of the Cross prayed step by step, and every text able to be read aloud on the device itself.
- ·The Bible in three versions, the Gospels and Acts mapped, the prophecies traced, and how the canon was settled.
- ·The liturgical year, the councils, the four levels of the faith, and the lenses over the catalogue — the martyrs, the Doctors, the popes, the incorruptibles and the patron saints.