Miracles Related to Bleeding
This category gathers episodes where blood loss, flow, or hemorrhage affects a living person and constitutes the heart of the narrative. The source may recount the stopping of the bleeding after a prayer, contact, blessing, or invocation of a saint. As with other health themes, the vocabulary must be read in its context: "flow of blood" is a historical and biblical expression, not a complete medical diagnosis. The most important boundary is that of relic blood. When blood kept after death is said to liquefy or flow again, the account belongs to the theme of liquefied blood, not that of a person healed of a hemorrhage. This distinction avoids artificially bringing together very different motifs. Sancteo presents these traditions with their source and level of recognition, without suggesting medical conduct.
- Accounts
- 42
- Saints
- 41
- Period
- 1st century – 20th century
Definition
Understanding this type of miracle
This category gathers episodes where blood loss, flow, or hemorrhage affects a living person and constitutes the heart of the narrative.
Forms included from the sources
- blood loss of a living person
Not to be confused with…
- martyr's blood kept as a relic
Documented examples
Major figures
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Saint Gregory the Great (Pope and Doctor of the Church) 6th century · 1 account « Bleeding of a cloth (brandeum) that had touched relics »
- Saint Ausonius of Angoulême 1st century · 1 account
« Healing of a twelve-year flow of blood in Calfagia during her baptism »
- Saint Tanche of Saint-Ouen 7th century · 1 account
« resurrection of a child from Vitry who died of a flow of blood »
- Saint Desiderius of Langres 3rd century · 1 account
« the blood on his book »
Classified sources
Accounts in the corpus
42 results
Editorial transparency
Method and sources
Sancteo presents these accounts as hagiographic and historical traditions, without ruling on their origin or making medical or spiritual promises.
Volumes are calculated from technically validated classifications in the canonical database. Each figure above has a quotation directly linked to this theme. Last recalculated: .
Editorial responsibility: Sancteo · Corpus source: Les Petits Bollandistes and documented enrichments. Version: miracle-topic-editorial-en-v1.