miraculous healings
Supernatural medical recoveries
Miraculous healings are cures attributed to divine intervention or supernatural forces rather than medical treatment.
The term appears in religious contexts—stories of saints healing the sick, faith healers claiming to restore sight or mobility, pilgrims returning from sacred sites without their ailments.
The shrine was famous for miraculous healings.
Skeptics use the phrase with implied quotation marks.
- divine interventionGodly action in affairs
- blind faithTrust without requiring proof
- faithTrust without proof
- leap of faithTrust without verification
- remissionTemporary disease absence
medical mystery · holy relics · holy water · saints · patron saints · Lourdes · prayer · folklore · touch · hope · shamanism · spontaneous · sacred texts · stigmata · anointing · unexplained phenomena · laying on of hands · pilgrimage
- sacred legendshagiography, medieval legend, holy visions, heavenly visions, divine intervention
- Marian ApparitionsFatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe, apparitions, visions
miraculous healingsevidence-based medicine
Clinical care guided by research
physical therapy · chemotherapy · medical treatment · medical intervention · natural healing
miraculous healingsterminal illness
Incurable, deadly medical condition
degenerative disease · sudden death · dying · wasting away · death sentence
miraculous healingsplacebo effect
Healing through expectation
spontaneous remission · charlatanism · quackery · false hope · placebo effects