milagro
Unexpected blessed event
Milagro is Spanish for miracle, used in English primarily for the small metal charms common in Mexican and Latin American folk religion.
These tiny figures—hearts, eyes, limbs, animals—are pinned to saints' images or left at shrines as prayers for healing or thanks for prayers answered: The altar was covered with milagros left by pilgrims.
Amazement or curiosity
- prodigyGifted youth with rare talent
- phenomenonExtraordinary observable occurrence
- blessingPrayer seeking divine favor
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
apparition · vision · intercession · divine intervention · answered prayer · revelation · epiphany · inexplicable
Devotional offering of gratitude
- votiveOffered in devotion
- offeringSomething presented or given
- shrineSacred devotional place
- altarSacred ritual table
sanctuary · chapel · devotion · prayer · petition · gratitude · thanksgiving · pilgrimage
Treatment that heals
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- remedyCurative treatment or fix
- restorationReturning something to condition
- wellnessOverall state of health
health · wholeness · answered prayer · intervention · deliverance · salvation · relief · comfort
Unexpected event causing astonishment
- wonderAmazement or curiosity
- amazementOverwhelming surprise and wonder
- astonishmentIntense sudden wonder
- aweReverent fear and wonder
serendipity · blessing · fortune · luck · providence · windfall · gift · godsend
wonder
Amazement or curiosity
- prodigyGifted youth with rare talent
- phenomenonExtraordinary observable occurrence
- blessingPrayer seeking divine favor
grace · apparition · vision · intercession · divine intervention · answered prayer · revelation · epiphany · inexplicable · wondrous
ex-voto
Devotional offering of gratitude
altar · sanctuary · chapel · devotion · prayer · petition · gratitude · thanksgiving · pilgrimage · sacred
cure
Treatment that heals
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- remedyCurative treatment or fix
- restorationReturning something to condition
wellness · health · wholeness · answered prayer · intervention · deliverance · salvation · relief · comfort · protection
surprise
Unexpected event causing astonishment
- wonderAmazement or curiosity
- amazementOverwhelming surprise and wonder
- astonishmentIntense sudden wonder
awe · serendipity · blessing · fortune · luck · providence · windfall · gift · godsend · heaven-sent
charm
Attractive personal quality
silver · gold · retablo · ofrenda · craft · handmade · embossed · hammered · miniature · symbolic
milagrocurse
Invoked harm through words
divine punishment · plague · affliction · damnation · calamity
milagrocommonplace
Unremarkable and frequent
routine · inevitability · coincidence · normalcy · natural phenomenon
miracle, miracles, miraculous, miraculously, marvel, marvels, marvelous, marvelously, marveled