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  • While the holy family rest on the way to Egypt, an angel bends a palm tree to provide them with dates. Etching.
  • A theurgist performing rituals to exercise divine powers on earth. Coloured aquatint.
  • Elijah restores the widow's son to his mother, who greets him with open arms. Drawing by R.T. Bone, ca. 1811.
  • M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches, and a disease of the lung) all interelated (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • King's evil; Edward the confessor touching for the evil. from Cambridge University Library
  • M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches and a disease of the lung) all inter-related (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the ceremony of immersion. Pencil drawing by R. Cleaver.
  • St Peter and St John healing the cripple, 1841
  • Crowds of sick people gathered at the tomb of F. de Paris, St. Medard cemetery, in the hope of a miracle cure. Engraving.
  • Crowds of sick people and clergy gathering at the tomb of F. de Paris where people had been cured. Engraving.
  • François Oudot, Viscount of Auxonne, healing and exorcising people in a village square. Etching, 1760, after F. Devosge.
  • Mademoiselle Hardouin miraculously cured of her paralysis at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • Saint Antony of Padua. Colour lithograph, 1873, by L. Gruner after E. Kaiser after Titian.
  • Hagar and Ishmael saved by an angel. Coloured mezzotint by R. Dunkarton, 1798, after J.S. Copley.
  • The cure of Innocentius of Carthage: the prayers of Saint Augustine of Hippo and others save Innocentius from painful surgery. Oil painting after Schelte Bolswert.
  • The widow's son ecstatically returns to life in response to Elijah's prayer. Wood engraving.
  • Crowds of sick people and their families making the pilgrimage to Lourdes in the hope of a miraculous cure. Reproduction of a wood engraving after H. Lanos.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, 1830, after F.G. Gessi.
  • A priest at Lourdes holding up a monstrance to a sick girl who walks towards it, in the background are groups of people on stretchers. Etching by J.L. Forain, 1912.
  • Elijah prays to raise the widow's son. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1768, after Rembrandt.
  • God and two cherubs make water flow from the ass's jaw that Samson has used to kill the Philistines. Etching by B. Audran after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • Elijah prays to resuscitate the widow's son. Line engraving by C. Heath, 1821, after R. Westall.
  • In front of a grand palace, Moses draws water from a rock. Etching by J. Le Pautre.
  • Wonders no miracles, or, Mr. Valentine Greatrates [sic] gift of healing examined, upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking, March the 7. 1665. at one Mr. Cressets house in Charter-House-Yard. In a letter to a Reverend-Divine, living near that place ... / [David Lloyd].
  • Saint Eligius: he reshoes the hoof of a horse by amputating the hock, shoeing the hoof, and reattaching the limb. Line engraving by "il Buono" (Floriano Dal Buono?).
  • Moses draws water from the rock, and the Israelites quench their thirst. Etching by J. Le Pautre.
  • Marie Carteri convalescing after being cured from fistula lacrimal as a consequence of visiting the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.
  • Blessings given at the High Church of Our Beloved Lady involving the expulsion of devils and curing of blind and lame people. Etching.
  • Saint Januarius: ceremony marking the liquefaction of his blood in Naples cathedral. Etching by G. Martini and L. Germain and engraving by B. Nicolet, after L.J. Desprez.
  • Moses strikes a rock and water pours forth in abundance. Etching after F. Sigrist.