What were the miracles of Saint John the Apostle?

Answer 1

St. John Neumann has a few miracles attributed to him (contrary to the previous "contributor's" answer of "nothing") and recognized by the Catholic Church.

After dying of a stroke in 1860, Bishop John Neumann was interred under the floor of the Parish of St. Peter the Apostle to be amongst some of his Redemptorist brethren. Since that time, he has had at least 3 miracles attributed to him and recognized by the Catholic Church.

His first recognized miracle came in 1923: In Milan, Italy, 11 year old Eva Benassi was diagnosed with a mortal case of tuberculer peritonitis. While on her death bed, her priest and nun ("Sister Elizabeth") asked that the community and the the girl pray for a cure through the intercession of Bishop Neumann. After praying to a picture of Bishop Neumann (this same picture was claimed to have cured Eva's father of an unknown ailment at a previous date and time), all of Eva's symptoms "disappeared" over the course of one night. When her doctor visited her in the morning, he found a patient - whose death he had expected to hear news of - cured without any signs of peritonitis. Nine doctors of the Sacred Congregation of Rites decided after a long investigation that the correct diagnosis was acute diffused peritonitis. The Vatican Medical College stated that Eva's cure was instantaneous, perfect, lasting, and, "naturally unexplainable."

Next, in 1949, J. Kent Lenahan, Jr. - a 19 year old boy from Villanova, PA - was in a horrific car accident that occurred on July 8. While standing on the running board of a moving car, the driver suddenly lost control and the car swerved and hit a utility pole, pinning young Lenahan between the car and the pole. He was taken to nearby Bryn Mawr Hospital where doctors discovered he had a "crushed" skull, an eye that was dislodged from its orbital socket and hanging over his cheek, a punctured lung, three fractured ribs and a fractured collar bone. In addition, he had lapsed into a coma and suffered copious bleeding from his ears, nose, and mouth. His temperature rose to 107 degrees. The doctors informed his parents that there was nothing they could to do save him and said he had only hours to live.

Despite this dire prognosis, Lenahan's mother refused to abandon hope. She rushed over to the Dominican Nuns of Camden (New Jersey) and asked them to start a novena. The Sisters prayed to the then Venerable John Neumann for Lenahan's recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Lenahan next visited John Neumann's tomb at St. Peter's Church at 5th and Girard Avenue. Then a neighbor gave them a piece of John Neumann's cassock. His parents took this to the hospital and touched Kent with it.

Within a few hours of applying the cassock, the youth's temperature dropped to a more manageable 100 degrees, and his heart rate slowed to within a more normal range. After a few more days, his condition stabilized, and his injuries began to heal nicely. Within 5 weeks of the accident, he walked out of the hospital under his own strength, and after a few more weeks he was mowing his lawn, playing his Trumpet, and reportedly even continuing one of his cherished hobbies: lifting weights. A few years later, working as a band leader and music teacher, young Lenahan was asked about his healing. He said, "They couldn't explain what happened, so I guess it was the Man upstairs."

Finally, in July of 1963, six year old Michael Flannigan had been undergoing treatments for osteomyelitis when his doctors discovered that he had been afflicted with Ewing's Sarcoma, a usually lethal form of bone cancer. The cancer (which is usually incurable after it spreads from it's initial diseased area) spread from the boy's tibia to his jaw and lungs, and doctors gave the youth an estimation of approximately 6 months to live. After the doctors informed the boy's parents of his bleak situation, they decided to take him to the shrine of Bishop Neumann to pray for a cure. After a few visits to the shrine, the boy began to make a dramatic recovery, and by October of 1963, all signs of cancer in his jaw and lungs had vanished. By Christmas of the same year (when the boy was supposed to be either dead or extremely close to death), all signs of Ewing's Sarcoma had vanished as well. In December, 1975, after a final examination of Michael's medical records, the Medical Board of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints declared that Michael Flanigan's cure was "scientifically and medically unexplainable," and attributed it to the intercession of Bishop Neumann. It was this miracle which paved the way toward sainthood for the Philadelphia Bishop.

Answer 2

Some of the miracles attributed to Saint John the Apostle include his ability to raise a dead youth to life in Ephesus, his unharmed handling of a cup of poisoned wine, and his restoration of a restored to health man near Ephesus.

Answer 3

If Our Lord worked any miracles through St. Ignatius of Loyola, there is no record of it.

Answer 4

St. John was declared a saint long before the modern canonization process as instituted and no miracles were required. Therefore, no miracles are recorded for St. John.