{"id":7239,"date":"2025-10-15T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.holyart.it\/com\/?p=7239"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:24:42","slug":"miracles-what-they-are-and-how-they-are-classified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.holyart.it\/com\/religious-items\/miracles-what-they-are-and-how-they-are-classified\/","title":{"rendered":"Miracles: what they are and how they are classified"},"content":{"rendered":"

Healings and exorcisms, apparitions, mastery over nature, even the resurrection of the dead. Jesus and his miracles, a legacy of history and Faith that remains ever relevant.<\/h4>\n\n

For the Catholic Church, miracles exist.<\/strong> Indeed, the miracles attributed to Jesus and reported in the canonical Gospels are to be regarded as historical events.<\/strong> We have deliberately made the distinction between the Canonical Gospels and the Apocryphal Gospels, because although in the latter miracles are even more numerous and spectacular, they are entirely devoid of historical veracity<\/strong> and therefore not recognised. After all, when speaking of the Apocryphal Gospels, it is common to encounter a more fairy-tale and marvellous dimension to the events in the life of Jesus<\/strong><\/a> and those who knew him, and it is inevitable that the miracles also become true acts of magic, wonders told more to amaze and capture attention than to inspire genuine Faith.<\/p>\n

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The miracles recognised by the Church are therefore historical accounts, even if interpreted from a theological point of view<\/strong>, or allegorical according to some biblical scholars, but in any case clear signs of the identity of Jesus<\/strong> and of his mission. The Catechism<\/strong> (Catechism of the Catholic Church, nos. 547\u2013550) describes them as testimony to the fact that he is the Son of God<\/strong>, as an invitation to believe in him, and acknowledges their effectiveness in strengthening Faith. In particular, Eucharistic Miracles<\/strong> are those supernatural events through which God confirms the real presence of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist<\/strong>,<\/a> thereby affirming the Faith of believers.<\/p>\n

More generally, a miracle is any occurrence not attributable to natural causes but justified by divine intervention<\/strong>. It is, in fact, solely within God\u2019s will and power to alter the natural order of things<\/strong>, since he created and established it. Thus the overturning of the laws of nature is his prerogative. For this reason, it becomes essential for the Church to recognise and regulate what truly constitutes a miracle, which miracles are to be considered genuine, and which false, driven by the will to deceive or by mere suggestion.<\/p>\n

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What miracles are<\/h2>\n

In the New Testament, miracles are the exclusive domain of Jesus<\/strong>. It is he who performs them, by virtue of his divine nature<\/strong>, without needing to call upon the Father. Yet he has the will and the capacity to bestow upon the disciples the power to perform miracles. The miracles of Jesus are always driven by the desire to do good<\/strong>\u2014sometimes to inspire Faith<\/strong>, sometimes to strengthen it\u2014never useless, never performed merely to amaze or astonish, and least of all to convince sceptics.<\/p>\n

The miracles performed by Jesus may be divided into:<\/p>\n