Wonder-worker
. St. Gregory, of Neo-Cæsareʹa, in Pontus. So called because he “recalled devils at his will, stayed a river, killed a Jew by the mere effort of his will, changed a lake into solid earth, and did many other wonderful things.” (See Thaumaturgus.)
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.