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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.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the ceremony of immersion. Pencil drawing by R. Cleaver.

Crowds of sick people gathered at the tomb of F. de Paris, St. Medard cemetery, in the hope of a miracle cure. Engraving.

Crowds of sick people and clergy gathering at the tomb of F. de Paris where people had been cured. Engraving.

François Oudot, Viscount of Auxonne, healing and exorcising people in a village square. Etching, 1760, after F. Devosge.

Mademoiselle Hardouin miraculously cured of her paralysis at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.

Saint Antony of Padua. Colour lithograph, 1873, by L. Gruner after E. Kaiser after Titian.

Hagar and Ishmael saved by an angel. Coloured mezzotint by R. Dunkarton, 1798, after J.S. Copley.

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

Der Wunderbegriff im Neuen Testament / herausgegeben von Alfred Suhl.

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

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

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Miracles

Images from the collections

Images about Miracles

Works from the collections

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

Der Wunderbegriff im Neuen Testament / herausgegeben von Alfred Suhl.

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.

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

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

Miracles

Images from the collections

Images about Miracles

Works from the collections

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

Der Wunderbegriff im Neuen Testament / herausgegeben von Alfred Suhl.

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.

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

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

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