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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.

King's evil; Edward the confessor touching for the evil. from Cambridge University Library

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.

St Peter and St John healing the cripple, 1841

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.

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.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Film-Script

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

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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.

Der Wunderbegriff im Neuen Testament / herausgegeben von Alfred Suhl.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Film-Script

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.