Prayer and gestures that are perceived to bring divine intervention in physical healing

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Christ heals the dumb and blind demoniac. Etching.

Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving.

An altar to which a paralysed man and an insane man have been brought for a cure. Etching by J. Le Pautre, 16--.

Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Coloured engraving.

Saint Francis of Assisi holding a crucifix before a sick woman brought to him to be cured. Etching by J.B.M. Pierre.

Christ heals two possessed men; in the background swine leap off a cliff. Engraving.

Christ heals a demoniac; a demon is expelled into the air. Etching by J.D. de Montalegre and M.H. Rentz.

A monk, suffering a hallucination that he is being attacked by wolves, being freed from his delusions by Saint Anselm. Drawing by an artist in the circle of J.W. Baumgartner.

The Canaanite (or Syrophoenician) woman asks Christ to cure her possessed daughter; she points to a dog, to which she compares herself. Etching by P. del Po after Annibale Carracci.

Saint Francis de Paul (San Francesco da Paola) healing a young man with an ulcered leg. Etching by Giandomenico Tiepolo.

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

Maria-Rosa Casabona, struck by apoplexy, is revived by an address of the blessed Francesco Saverio Maria Bianchi. Process print.

Ritual healing : magic, ritual and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period / edited by Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett.

M0005438: Four sections of a stained glass window at Canterbury Cathedral showing a cure of leprosy

And his Majesty doth accordingly will and command, that from the time of publishing this proclamation, none presume to repair to his Majesties court to be healed of that disease ... : given at our court of Hampton-Court, the fourth day of July, 1662. in the fourteenth year of our reign : God save the King.

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Faith Healing

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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.

Ritual healing : magic, ritual and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period / edited by Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett.

Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving.

M0005438: Four sections of a stained glass window at Canterbury Cathedral showing a cure of leprosy

Faith Healing

Images from the collections

Images referencing Faith Healing

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.

Ritual healing : magic, ritual and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period / edited by Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett.

Saint Peregrinus Laziosi: a vision of Christ heals his leg by the ministration of an angel. Engraving.

M0005438: Four sections of a stained glass window at Canterbury Cathedral showing a cure of leprosy

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