RELIGIOUS MYSTERIES AND MIRACLES

CARLOS ANDRES GAVIRIA, DAVID ERAZO

VOCABULARY WICKEDNESS: absence of moral or

spiritual values. MOB: A disorderly crowd of people.

BRIMSTONE: An old name for sulfur FLOOD: The rising of a body of water and

its overflowing onto normally dry land ODOR: Any property detected by the

olfactory system BEG: Call upon in supplication; entreat MIGHTY: Having or showing great

strength or force or intensity

VOCABULARY Striking: attracting attention; impressive: a

striking beauty. Worship: to show profound religious devotion

and respect to; adore or venerate (God or any person or thing considered divine).

Plague: A sudden destructive influx or injurious outbreak: a plague of locusts.

Jar: A cylindrical glass or earthenware vessel with a wide mouth and usually no handles.

To sink:  To descend to the bottom; submerge. Tomb: A grave or other place of burial. Deemed: To regard as; consider: deemed the

results unsatisfactory.

VOCABULARY Decay: Biology To break down into

component parts; rot. Exude: To discharge or emit (a liquid

or gas, for example) gradually. Coffin: An oblong box in which a

corpse is buried. Lid:  A removable or hinged cover for

a hollow receptacle or box.

THE HOLY GRIAL

The Holy Grail was the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers.

SODOM AND GOMORRAH

Were they real cities and if so where are they?

For the sins of their inhabitants Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim were destroyed by “brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven” (Genesis 19:24-25).

INCORRUPTIBLE CORPSES

Incorruptibility is the name given to the situation in which a dead person does not decay after death.

SAINT BERNADETTE (1879)

Marie Bernarde "Bernadette" Soubirous (7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879) was the firstborn daughter of a miller  from Lourdes, France, and is venerated as a Christian mystic and Saint in the Catholic Church.

SAINT SYLVAN (350)

Saint Sylvan was a roman who was martyred.

SAINT JOHN BOSCO (1888)

John Bosco (Italian: Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; 16 August 1815 – 31 January 1888), popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest of the Latin Church, educator and writer of the 19th century.

THE GIANTS OF GENESIS

The world as it existed before the Genesis Flood is one shrouded in mystery: men lived to be hundreds of years old, presumably the Garden of Eden could still be seen though it remained off limits, and a race of giants strode the earth

MARIAN APPARITIONS

OUR LADY OF LAS LAJAS

In 1754, Mary appeared in Colombia in a place called Las Lajas. The vision of the virgin Mary was saw by a local woman and her daughter.

GUADALUPE, MEXICO

In 1531, in Mexico, a Christian man called Juan Diego saw the virgin Mary in a hill called Tepeyac.

WHAT IS A MIRACLE?

IT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENT MANIFESTING DIVINE INTERVENTION IN THE HUMAN AFFAIRS

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF GOD’S MIRACLES?

STIGMATA

Stigmata is a term used by members of the Christian faith to describe bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ,

JESUS’ MIRACLES

WATER INTO WINE.

WALKING ON WATER.

RAISING LAZARUS.

WATER INTO WINE

This was the Jesus’ first recorded miracle which marks the beginning of Jesus’ ministry.

WALKING ON WATER

Jesus walked on the water of the Sea of Galilee. He appeared when the disciples encountered a big storm.

JESUS RAISES LAZARUS

Lazarus had already dead four days before when Jesus arrived on Bethany.