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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Going back to the "miracles" after Sarah's death. I have had another look at them and they are indeed nebulous, as I think issybird said she would like them to be. For Richard Smythe's face, there is mention of urticaria (hives), which seems to be something that can clear up quite quickly. Mr Parkis's boy had bad stomach pains and a temperature, both of which went away overnight.
Smythe and Parkis each saw these cures as somehow miraculous, and the priest made some reference to Sarah having been a good woman. But none of that adds up to miraculous, inexplicable cures.
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That's fair. Certainly they wouldn't pass muster for canonization (I assume). I did find the addition of relics in both instances to be interesting, just something to make it murkier still. There's also the placebo effect; the wanting a cure through Sarah's intercession on both parts effecting the desired cure.