http://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Marvels ... 0895555417
If you guys loved the miracles that the masters of the far east books provided you will love this book.
Mrs. Cruz-a now-famous writer-scoured through libraries and wrote to shrines all over the world for the material for this remarkable book. The wonders described here include bilocation, levitation, odor of sanctity, odor of sin, transverberation and other miracles of the heart, miraculous transport (teleportation, walking on water ), money mysteriously provided, multiplication of food, mystical marriage and heavenly jewelry, miraculous protection, lights and rays of love, fire and heat of love, prophecy, invisibility, Saints who knew the date of their death, the stigmata (wounds of Christ), gift of tongues, mystical fasts, mystical knowledge, incorruption of bodies after death, bodies transformed after death, blood miracles, voices of the dead, death warnings and other signals from the dead, "manna" and perfume from the bodies of the Saints after death, and miracles of the Saints involving earth, sea, sky, rain, snow, ice, plants, fruit and flowers, birds, bees, bugs, animals, reptiles, springs, wells, holy water and fire.
MYSTERIES, MARVELS, MIRACLES is a tremendous contribution to Catholic literature and a wonderful asset to the Catholic world. Miracles are one of the marks of Christ's true Church, and here the reader sees a vast panorama of Catholic miracles reaching back for centuries.
No one can read MYSTERIES, MARVELS, MIRACLES without seeing that God has
indeed favored the Saints with amazing gifts and marvelous powers over nature-testifying to His own almighty power and to the truth of the Catholic Church.
If Geoff is reading this, there is a great section on transverberation, and it is described as an angel piercing the heart of a saint and all of gods divine love and bliss just flowing. They also describe this as sometimes very painful in the heart area. I think you have described the same sensations of pain and love in some of your posts.
a little excerpt link:
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The author Joan Carroll Cruz, is an amazing religious researcher and has a number of other books that are equally outstanding as the mysteries marvels and miracles. I also hear that she is from New Orleans, and still lives down here. Hopefully one day i can meet her and give my thanks for all the research and effort she put into compiling these amazing historical accounts of miracles.
Bibliography
* The Incorruptibles (TAN Books and Publishers, Inc, 1977)
* Desires of Thy Heart (Tandem Press, 1977)
* Relics (Our Sunday Visitor, Inc, 1984)
* Eucharistic Miracles (TAN Books and Publishers, Inc, 1987)
* Secular Saints (TAN Books and Publishers, Inc, 1989)
* Prayers and Heavenly Promises (TAN Books and Publishers, Inc, 1990)
* Miraculous Images of Our Lady (TAN Books and Publishers, Inc, 1993)
* Miraculous Images of Our Lord (TAN Books and Publishers, Inc, 1995)
* Mysteries, Marvels, Miracles (TAN Books and Publishers, Inc, 1997)
* Angels & Devils (TAN Books and Publishers, Inc, 1999)
* Saintly Men of Modern Times (Our Sunday Visitor, Inc, 2003)
* Saintly Women of Modern Times (Our Sunday Visitor, Inc, 2004)
* Saintly Youth of Modern Times (Our Sunday Visitor, Inc, 2006)
