Thauʹmaturʹgus
.A miracle-worker; applied to saints and others who are reputed to have performed miracles. (Greek, thauma ergon.)
Apolloʹnius of Tyaʹna, Cappadocia (A.D. 3–98). (See his Life, by Philosʹtratus.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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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