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Miracles

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  • While the holy family rest on the way to Egypt, an angel bends a palm tree to provide them with dates. Etching.
  • A theurgist performing rituals to exercise divine powers on earth. Coloured aquatint.
  • Elijah restores the widow's son to his mother, who greets him with open arms. Drawing by R.T. Bone, ca. 1811.
  • M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches, and a disease of the lung) all interelated (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches and a disease of the lung) all inter-related (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
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Catalogue

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    A lame man being doused in water from a holy spring to procure a miraculous cure, in Sarepta (?), Russia. Pen and ink drawing, 1903.

    | Date: 1903 | Reference: 22761i
    • Books

    Der Wunderbegriff im Neuen Testament / herausgegeben von Alfred Suhl.

    | Date: 1980
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    • Online

    M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches, and a disease of the lung) all interelated (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.

    | Reference: 18543i
    • Books

    Medicine, miracle, and magic in New Testament times / Howard Clark Kee.

    Kee, Howard Clark. | Date: 1986
    • Books

    Miracle cures : saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief / Robert A. Scott.

    Scott, Robert A., 1935- | Date: [2010], ©2010
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