This Section lists ... natural order graces, in the form of miracles ... to confirm
the Catholic Faith ... for the supernatural goal of saving souls.

The way to bring one's soul to the justified state is on
Section 2.1 to have a chance of getting to Heaven.

Twenty-five (25) Listed

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1.  On a journey from ... Spires Germany to Cologne Germany January 1141 A.D.

Gerard (Monk, most likely Cistercian) >
"Today the miracles seem to have been re-doubled. The crowd follows us everywhere, and the fields are as full as the towns. A mother brought a great girl, who had been deaf and dumb from her birth. The charitable father imposed his hands on her, and instantly, in our presence, she obtained both her hearing and speech. We had scarcely proceeded a few steps, when a man, quite as deaf, was suddenly healed."

Godfrey, varient of Geoffrey (most likely Geoffrey of Clairvaux, secretary and biographer of Saint Bernard) >
"Until the occurrence of this miracle, I was before him, and preceded the crowd ; but, struck with the exclamations which every moment resounded behind me, I made careful inquiries concerning all which had happened, and I ascertained the fact that, on this one day, our holy father had healed, on the road, one blind girl, three deaf persons, one cripple, and, after that, five blind men."

Abbot Campigbus >
"When we arrived in the evening at Juliers, a city which owed its origin to Julius Caesar, we found a crippled woman prostrate on the steps of the church. The saint, moved with compassion, took her by the hand, and raised her, with so much the more ease, on account of her great faith."

Gerard (Monk, most likely Cistercian) >
"This morning, after the celebration of Mass, a woman of considerable importance, the niece of the Count of Juliers, who was entirely deprived of the use of one eye, and could see very little with the other, so that she could not walk without a guide, was instantaneously healed, by the simple sign of the cross."

Gerard(Monk, most likely Cistercian) >
"During the whole route, at Maestricht, at Liege, Mons, Yalenciennes, Cambray, and Vaucelles, innumerable miracles gave token of the passing of the man of God. On leaving Liege, a young man, blind from his birth , was presented to him. "His eyes were not only sightless, say two of the chroniclers, but they were dried up, and the lids close shut." The saint opened them, touched them with his venerable fingers, and immediately restored their sight. The happy young man, at seeing the light, which he had never known, felt an extraordinary emotion. "I see", cried he, "I see light, I see men, and I see creatures with hair." Then he clapped his hands, and, jumping for joy, exclaimed ... "I shall never again hurt my feet against the stones."

Another woman, subject to nervous convulsions, received her health at the moment Saint Bernard blessed her with the Holy Sign of the Cross.

A woman of quality who, from the age of fifteen, had been deprived of the use of an eye, had lost all hope of recovery, after having vainly tried every kind of remedy; she recommended herself to the servant of God, and regained her sight.

Fourteen other cures are named in the journal as having taken place on the same day, "and these miracles", says one of the secretaries, "were not done in the dark, but in full day, in public, before the whole world, that all the world might glorify God, who is wonderful in his saints.

Note 1: The God being spoken of here ... is the Catholic God.

Note 2: To bring one's soul ... to the justified state before the Catholic God ... it is the four steps on Section 2.1.    This alone brings your soul into Christianity ... so you'll have a chance of making it to Heaven.   One must also do sufficient works to merit Heaven (over *100* works Dogmas and scriptures > Sections 28, 28.1, 29).

Note 3: If you don't have any inclination to take the steps of Note 1 ... ask the Blessed Virgin for help, she'll be there quickly.   Prayers for this purpose are on Section 4.1.

Chaplain Eberhard >
"We were at the altar of the Blessed Virgin, and I attended upon the Reverend Father, when a young girl was presented to him; he blessed her, and she was healed; but the crowd was so great, that we were obliged to retire."

On January 10, 1147, the preacher of the Cross came to Cologne. On that day, at the end of the Solemn Mass that the Saint celebrated at the altar of the Blessed Virgin, a blind girl was healed before all the people and a wealthy matron, who was well-known in the town and who for three years had been unable to move her limbs, arose under his blessing and was again sound.

In the Archbishop's house a deaf and dumb nephew of a bailiff from Cologne and a blind man were healed.

Great surprise was caused by the healing of an honorable paralyzed old man from the area, who only with difficulty had reached the man of God. Upon a short prayer of the Abbot, he immediately regained his health, and stood there so safe and strong that he seemed to be not only healed, but changed into a new man.

It was well known that a child from the neighborhood of Clairvaux had been presented to Bernard in a state of extreme suffering; his arm was paralyzed, his hand withered. Bernard prayed, made the sign of the cross upon the child, and restored him to his mother perfectly cured.

A no less extraordinary cure was wrought on a rich man named Humbert, who afterwards became a religious, and was the first abbot of the monastery of Igny. Humbert was so terribly afflicted with epilepsy as to fall into fits seven times a day. Bernard prayed for him ... from that moment, Humbert was cured, and never again to the end of his life experienced a single attack of the epilepsy.

In the diocese of Leon, on the day of the dedication of the new church of the monastery, which he had founded there, this church was filled with so incredible a multitude of flies, that their buzzing disturbed the devotions of the faithful ; and as there was no other way of getting rid of them, the Saint cried, "Excommunicabe eas" (excommunicate them).

The next day they were all found dead ; and their number was so great that they blackened the pavement, and were carried out of the church with shovels.

To which a chronicler adds, that "this miracle was so well known, and so celebrated, that the curse of the flies of Foigny passed into a proverb among the people around, who had come from all parts to assist at the dedication of that Church."

Historian Fr. John Laux says that since the days of the early Church there was no greater miracle worker! The sick were brought to Clairvaux from all over and were healed by his touch and prayers.

The restoration of the power of speech to a converted nobleman who was dying so that he could properly confess his sins.

Note 1: There is no forgiveness of sins outside the Catholic Church ... one must become Catholic by the four steps on Section 2.1 ... which alone brings souls into Christianity.

Note 2: If you don't have any inclination to take the steps of Note 1 ... ask the Blessed Virgin for help, she'll be there quickly.   Prayers for this purpose are on Section 4.1.

Note 3: Sacramental confession is not available in these times. See Section 10.2 for the Sources of Dogma on returning to a state of grace after sinning ... in places and times when there are no priests or bishops (such as now).

Bernard passed into Germany, and the miracles which multiplied almost at his every step undoubtedly contributed to the success of his mission.

On one occasion, when he was preaching to the Albigensians, he foretold to his audience that the ill who were present would be healed upon eating the loaves of bread he had just blessed. And, indeed, it came to pass that many who ate the bread were healed.

Another significant miracle is the ... miracle of the multiplication of the loaves. It is said that while feeding the poor, he miraculously multiplied the amount of bread available, echoing what the Catholic Jesus Christ did in the Catholic writing of Matthew Chapter 14.

A monk suffered from epilepsy and Conrad describes how he begged and prayed over the body of Saint Bernard for a cure. Bernard, unable to resist helping those in need, cured the young monk.

A young boy with a "shriveled arm and a contracted hand" arrived in Cîteaux hoping for a cure. The monks took the boy to Bernard’s corpse and touched his shriveled arm against the saint’s body. Immediately the arm came back to life and ... so great was the acclamation of all those present at this cure, loudly praising God, that the brothers’ discipline could scarcely be maintained.

In one instance told by Geoffrey of Auxerre, Bernard punished the king of France by predicting the death of his eldest son: "Because you have offended the Almighty and He who takes away the spirit of the princes, formidable to the earthly kings, be sure that this offense will be punished by the death of your first born Philipe." Sure enough shortly after Bernard’s prophecy the king’s son was dead.

He is reported to have raised more than 100 people from the dead.

Note: The Blessed Virgin after receiving the grace from the Catholic God ... places souls back into bodies at the request of Saint Bernard.

It was calculated that during one trip through the Rhineland ... he healed an average of thirty persons daily.

We are all well aware of the fact ... that the Saints in Heaven have more merit with God ... than those still in the world (hoping to get to Heaven) ... as we see in the Catholic writings of ... Matthew 11:11 and Luke 7:28.

The Catholic Jesus Christ is the sole ... Mediator of Redemption (the One who re-opened Heaven after it was closed by Original Sin) ... but He is not the mediator of grace. We see this in ... 1 Timothy 2:5-6 (the whole sentence), the heretics all leave out the last part (starting with the word "Who").

Catholic writing of 1 Saint Timothy 2:5-6 >
"For there is one God, and one Mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus: Who gave Himself a Redemption for all, a testimony in due times." Angels and men are the mediators of grace ... God is the originator of grace not a mediator or grace.

So we are encouraged to ... intercede for others ... by informing them of the true Divine Faith (the Catholic Sources of Dogma) ... and by praying for others.

Catholic writing of Apocalypse 8:3 >
"And another Angel came, and stood before the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all Saints upon the golden altar, which is before the throne of God."

Catholic writing of Apocalypse 8:4 >
"And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the Saints ascended up before God from the hand of the Angel."

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