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Mysteries Marvels Miracles: In the Lives of the Saints

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If you need to update your bookshelf but don't want to buy several books on Saints, buy this great book or if you are interested in the Saints and miracles God worked through them - also buy this wonderful book! It will keep you reading through the wee hours!

One of the most amazing Catholic books of the century. Includes hundreds of true stories of miraculous phenomena in the lives of the Saints: bilocation, levitation, multiplication of food, etc. A tremendous contribution to Catholic literature and a wonderful asset to the Catholic world! (Publisher)

Having yet another bad day? Well, instead of relying upon a glass of wine (or something stronger) to take the sting out of it all - I can't recommend any book more encouraging, enlightening, & uplifting while leaving one securely back in the pocket of faith, hope and courage. You don't have to be Catholic to appreciate the enormous work and information in this book or to benefit from its gifts. All one might need is to be open and flexible with a splash of humility that perhaps...you, me and everyone else (no matter their race, religion, class, socio-economic status, education, gender & culture) - *do not* have "the answer" (and probably never will) to the profound mysteries of life. Joan Cruz is on target here in trying to convey this message as well as keeping us company along the way.

The book is written from a faith perspective of a believer.

For researchers of ancient miracles, this book may be a good start as it sorts out miracles by name and category (eg. multiplcation of food, levitation, healing stories, etc.) and which saint or sinner experienced the respective miracle categories, throughout ancient times to the post-Middle Ages. The vast majority of recorded miracles seem to stop by the 20th century.

It somehow doesn't surprise me much, or maybe it did, that God doesn't seem to work miracles in the following 2 categories:

(1) Money or riches;

(2) Love-related issues on human relationships.

I wonder why?

I turn to the short chapter on "Money" and read of only one instance whereby the case can be considered a "miracle". A church prayed for money and found a bag of it not long after.

I turn to the chapter on relationships and see that relationships are defined as the union of humans to the divine. Nothing wrong with that at all, but doesn't Jesus already have enough "wives"?

Life's experience has shown me that God seems to reward money and riches and relationships to the undeserved, to bad, corrupt and evil people only, NOT to His followers in the Church! The people who need these things the most, to survive, are never experiencing miracles today! I'm totally disappointed!

The book contains wonderful information, but it is organized so poorly! The books lists information by miracle type, and then lists the saints that performed that particular miracle. The book would be much better if it was the other way around: List the saints, and then the miracles that those saints performed.