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Thauʹmaturʹgus

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A miracle-worker; applied to saints and others who are reputed to have performed miracles. (Greek, thauma ergon.)

Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe, whose power was looked upon as miraculous.

Apolloʹnius of Tyaʹna, Cappadocia (A.D. 3–98). (See his Life, by Philosʹtratus.)

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, called “the Thaumaturgus of the West.” (1091–1153.)

St. Francis dʹ Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order. (1182–1226.)

J. Joseph Gassner, of Bratz, in the Tyrol, who, looking on disease as a possession, exorcised the sick, and his cures were considered miraculous. (1727–1779.)

Gregory, Bishop of Neo-Cœsareʹa, in Cappadoʹcia, called emphatically “the Thaumaturgus,” from the numerous miracles he is reported to have performed. (212–270.)

St. Isidorus. (See his Life, by Damascius.)

Jannes and Jambres, the magicians of Pharaoh who withstood Moses.

Blaise Pascal. (1623–1662.)

Plotiʹnus, and several other Alexandrine philosophers. (205–270.) (See the Life of Plotinus, by Porphyry.)

Proclus. (412–415.) (See his Life, by Marinus.)

Simon Magus, of Samaria, called “the Great Power of God.” (Acts viii. 10.)

Several of the Sophists. (See Lives of the Philosophers, by Eunapius.)

Sospitra possessed the omniscient power of seeing all that was done in every part of the globe. (Eunapius: Œdeseus.)

Vincent de Paul, founder of the “Sisters of Charity.” (1576–1660.)

Peter Schott has published a treatise on natural magic called Thaumaturgus Physicus. (See below.)

Thaumaturgus. Filumēna is called Thaumaturga, a saint unknown till 1802, when a grave was discovered with this inscription on tiles: “Lumena Paxte Cymfi, which, being rearranged, makes Pax tecum Filumena. Filumena was at once accepted as a saint, and so many wonders were worked by “her” that she has been called La Thaumaturge di Dixneuvième Siècle.

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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.

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Thales
Thalestris
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Thames
Thammuz
Thamyris
That
That’s the Ticket
Thatch
Thaumaturgus
Theagenes and Chariclea
Theban Bard or Eagle
Theban Legion
Thebes
Thecla (St.)
Theist, Deist, Atheist, Agnostic
Thelusson Act
Thenot
Theocritus
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Miracles (Latin, miracŭlum)
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