Miracles in the life of Saint John Vianney
Posted: Sunday, February 07, 2010
by Bob Lord
Journeys of Faith
There were many miracles in the life of Saint John Vianney the Cure of Ars. The most famous possibly was surviving an attack by the devil which set his bed on fire.
And the Miraculous appearance of Our Lady, but in addition there were two miracles that we want to tell you about today that you may not be familiar with. These two are the multiplication of the flour in the kitchen of La Providence, his school just across the street for his rectory, and the miracle of the wine.
Once, at La Providence, there was not enough flour to bake even an oven full of bread.
The mill couldn't grind the wheat that had been sent over. There was just enough flour to bake three loaves of bread.
When they had seen there was not enough flour to feed all the girls in the school, they went to John Vianney.
He told them to use the little they had.
They took the small amount of flour they had, and began to knead it. The trough filled, overflowing with dough as on days when they had a large sack of flour. Had John Vianney prayed
Did he ask the Lord to multiply the loaves as He had, on the Mount of the Beatitudes? It is definite that a Miracle was granted by the Lord for the John Vianney's spiritual children. Was it by his intercession? What do you believe?
The Miracle of the Wine.
One day, John Vianney came to his people, advising them a full cask of wine had split and the contents had spilled onto the sand floor.
Sure enough, when they investigated, the cask was empty.
They tried to retrieve whatever they could of the clearest wine from the sand. They were barely able to collect two little pails of clear wine.
They poured what little they had into a cask which was nearly empty. To their amazement, they kept drawing from the cask for days, till there was nothing left!
Beside the now empty cask was another cask of wine, half full.
They decided to pour the 50 liters of wine from the half full cask, to the empty one beside it, which had a capacity to hold 200 liters of wine.
Jokingly, one of the women teased, "See if the cask is full!" Imagine the look on her face when the other woman replied, "It is! Look, I can touch the wine with my finger."
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Bob and Penny Lord are renowned Catholic authors and television hosts on EWTN, Global Catholic television. They are prolific writers about the Catholic faith, especially the Saints for which they have been dubbed "experts on the Saints." For more information about Saint John Vianney go to: http://www.discover-catholic-miracles.com/john-vianney.html
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