What sort of Miracles must be attributed to one before he or she is considered a Saint in the Catholic Church?

Question

Please, just a general idea, or a sampling of types of miracles that qualify one for consideration as a Saint. Thank you!

Answer 1

Not sort but amount.

The formal process of sainthood involves a complicated process taking time, money, testimonies, and miracles, and the church follows a strict set of rules in the process.

First, to determine who qualifies, the Vatican looks to its Congregation for the "Causes of Saints". Typically, a would-be candidate's "cause" is presented to the local bishop by his or her admirers who persuade him that the life of the candidate was a model of holiness.

Once the applicant is approved as a candidate, an appointed postulator interviews those who knew the individual. Personal testimonies, letters, and writings of the candidate's are put together.

A relater then sifts through this information and prepares a position paper. If the volumes of evidence prove a life of "heroic virtue", the person is given the title "venerable" by the Pope.

The next title, beatified (blessed), is attained if it can be proven that a miracle occurred after the death of the candidate, the result of someone praying to that person for help.

To finalize a canonization, it must be established that a second miracle occurred. (Martyrs are the exception. The pope can reduce their miracle requirement to one or waive it altogether.) Most often prayer requests are for a physical healing.

Verifying a miracle is considered the most difficult hurdle in the process. Just deciding what constitutes one causes debate. A life of heroic virtue is obviously easier to establish than a healing that results from prayers.

Answer 2

The requirement for a Saint is that they perform three miracles. Now days they are usually claims of healing. But, when a woman saw visions of Mary and talked about them she was put up for canonization.

Examples of miracles performed could be when Moses struck a rock and water poured forth, or when he asked God for the plagues on Egypt. When Jesus turned the water into wine, or when he feed a huge crowd with only a few fish and a couple of loaves of bread. Cases where the person saw visions could be called miracles, but they wouldn’t fulfill the definition unless somebody else saw those visions as well.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracles
"According to many religions, a miracle, derived from the old Latin word miraculum meaning 'something wonderful', is a striking interposition of divine intervention by God in the universe by which the ordinary course and operation of Nature is overruled, suspended, or modified."

In common usage a miracle is any action that cannot be explained with a natural or scientific explanation. But, this is arguable recently a person saw the image of the Virgin Mary in a stain on a window screen. Many other people claimed that they say it as well, and it quickly became a shrine. The actual image could be considered to be random or the result of a natural act though. So it was a miracle to some and just odd to others.

To me a miracle must not be something like this it must be clear and observable and generate a result that cannot be explained by any other means. Of course this rules out a lot of modern day miracles. People can claim to be healed by just visiting a preacher, but most of these have been found to be scams. The Baptists don't believe that people can speak in tongues, however we see modern day religious meetings where some people do just that. To the Baptists and me it isn't a miracle unless you can identify each language and you know that the person did not know that language. Otherwise it is pure babble.

Answer 3

Miracles are from God working through people, with God being the source of the credit. When you make a person a saint and pray to them it is basically worshiping a false idol, the bible attributes all miracles as Gods doing.

Answer 4

If a person is cured of an illness without the intervention
of medical care and it lasts longer then 5 yrs. I believe
is the guideline(if that person has prayed to a particular
saint.) example: Lung cancer

Answer 5

there has to be three miracles like some one get heel or recovery from a illness,I did know one girl she had a leukemia she went into cardiac arrest and wlen the EMT brought her back it was gone

Answer 6

Of coarse, one must be dead in order to be canonized. but as far as an accredited miracle, it has to be authenticated by the Vatican and medical doctors.

Answer 7

They must be able to sit and listen to TV evangelists for 2 weeks straight... and can't make any bronx cheers.

Answer 8

There is a criteria, see link below, hope it helps.