Accounts of Tumors Attributed to Saints

The accounts classified under "tumors" form a limited set. They explicitly mention a mass, a tumor, or, in more recent texts, a cancer. Reading them requires particular caution: words have changed meaning over the centuries, and an ancient formula does not always allow for a diagnosis in the current sense. The page therefore gathers only those episodes where the source wording clearly names this motif, without retrospectively reclassifying every lump or illness. Traditions may attribute the disappearance of the condition to a sign of the cross, a prayer, a blessed substance, or intercession invoked after the saint's death. The interest of this small corpus is comparative: it shows how an ancient bodily vocabulary sometimes meets that of more recent beatification and canonization procedures. None of these accounts constitutes medical advice, prognosis, or treatment.

Accounts

81

Saints

73

Period

4th century – 21st century