What were the miracles of Saint Benedict of Nursia?

Answer 1

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St Anselm was Archbishop of Canterbury and a Doctor of the Church. He was born approximately 1033 and died 21 April, 1109. No reliable source attributes miracles to him, although there is a brief account of miracles attributed St. Anselm said to have been written by Eadmer, but its authorship is doubtful. Other early writers on Anselm, such as John of Salisbury, add some new details, but their accounts of the Saint are largely drawn from Eadmer.

Eadmer, assuming he was actually the author, attributes some fanciful miracles to Anselm, including that he had the ability to see through walls, cure with a look a youth troubled with pain in his genitalia, and was able to drive off the wolves which a gravely ill monk imagined were attacking him. The invalid monk claimed that when Anselm came in the door and raised his hand to make the sign of the cross, he saw a tongue of flame come out of his mouth as if it were a lance hurled at the wolves. Eadmer assures his readers that he might have included many more accounts of cures effected through the water in which Anselm had washed his hands and the morsels of food that had been secretly removed from his plate.

Answer 2

What we know of the miracles of St. Benedict of Nursia was written in Dialogues by Pope St. Gregory I, who was not really a contemporary of Benedict. Euan Cameron (Interpreting Christian History) says that Pope Gregory displayed a credulous reception of miracle stories so naive that some analysts have doubted whether he really wrote the book. Gregory says that Benedict repaired, by the power of prayer alone, a sieve which his nurse had allowed to be broken. When a Goth lost the head of a farming implement in a deep pond, Benedict placed the shaft in the waterand cause the metal head to rise up and join itself to the handle. There are many similar miracles that Pope Gregory attributed to Benedict. This was a period in Christian history when there was an increasing expectation of ever more spectacular and even bizarre miracles, so Gregory's account suited the times, but need not be considered historically reliable.

Answer 3

Some of the miracles associated with Saint Benedict of Nursia include turning poisoned bread into a lump of iron, making water flow from a rock, and predicting the future. He is also said to have restored a broken sieve and miraculously extinguished a fire.

Answer 4

There are several saints named Martin. Please be specific.

Answer 5

St. Benedict was declared a saint before the modern system of canonization was instituted that requires miracles to be attributed to a possible saint.