Miracles Related to Storms and Thunderstorms
Storm miracles put a community, ship, city, or travelers in the face of threatening winds and thunderstorms. Sources attribute to a saint's prayer the calming of the elements, their diversion, or, more rarely, their triggering against a danger. The motif can be maritime, but it is not to be confused with drowning: the storm is here the main event, even when it threatens lives. It is also distinguished from harvests when hail or rain are only evoked in relation to fields. The corpus is small but geographically varied, which allows for comparing sea, mountain, and urban territory. The page must indicate what the account says about the phenomenon and its beneficiaries without reconstructing meteorology. The image favors the scale of the landscape, human fragility, and the return to calm rather than a spectacular effect.
- Accounts
- 20
- Saints
- 18
- Period
- 1st century – 17th century
Definition
Understanding this type of miracle
Storm miracles put a community, ship, city, or travelers in the face of threatening winds and thunderstorms.
Forms included from the sources
- storm, thunderstorm, wind, and bad weather
Not to be confused with…
- individual drowning and rain only for agricultural purposes
Documented examples
Major figures
- Saint Anselm of Canterbury 11th century · 1 account
« Calming of a storm at sea through prayer »
- Saint Solange of Berry 9th century · 1 account
« Dissipation of storms and contrary winds »
- Saint Laurence of Dublin 12th century · 1 account
« Calming of a storm at sea after the vow to consecrate a church »
- Saint Gregory of Tours (Archbishop) 6th century · 1 account
« Dissipation of a thunderstorm by his reliquary »
Classified sources
Accounts in the corpus
20 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.