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- Jesus
- Mary
- The Church
- The Bible
- The authors of the Gospels were either eyewitnesses or close contacts of those eyewitnesses
- Onomastics support the historical reliability of the Gospels
- The New Testament was not altered
- The New Testament is the best-attested manuscript of Antiquity
- The Gospels were written too early after the facts to be legends
- Archaeological finds confirm the reliability of the New Testament
- The criterion of embarrassment proves that the Gospels tell the truth
- The dissimilarity criterion strengthens the case for the historical reliability of the Gospels
- 84 details in Acts verified by historical and archaeological sources
- The unique prophecies that announced the Messiah
- The time of the coming of the Messiah was accurately prophesied
- The prophet Isaiah's ultra accurate description of the Messiah's sufferings
- Daniel's "Son of Man" is a portrait of Christ
- The Apostles
- The martyrs
- Saint Blandina and the Martyrs of Lyon: the fortitude of faith (177 AD)
- Thomas More: “The king’s good servant, but God’s first”
- The Martyrs of Compiègne (1794)
- The Vietnamese martyrs Father Andrew Dung-Lac and his 116 companions (17th-19th centuries)
- Blaise Marmoiton: the epic journey of a missionary to New Caledonia (d. 1847)
- Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Knight of the Immaculate (d. 1941)
- The monks
- Saint Benedict, father of Western monasticism (d. 550)
- Saint Bruno the Carthusian (d.1101): the miracle of a hidden life
- Blessed Angelo Agostini Mazzinghi: the Carmelite with flowers pouring from his mouth (d. 1438)
- Monk Abel of Valaam's accurate prophecies about Russia (d. 1841)
- The more than 33,000 miracles of Saint Charbel Maklouf (d. 1898)
- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (d. 1968): How God worked wonders through "a poor brother who prays"
- The saints
- Saints Anne and Joachim, parents of the Virgin Mary (19 BC)
- Saint Nazarius, apostle and martyr (d. 68 or 70)
- Ignatius of Antioch: successor of the apostles and witness to the Gospel (d. 117)
- Saint Gregory the Miracle-Worker (d. 270)
- Saint Martin of Tours: patron saint of France, father of monasticism in Gaul, and the first great leader of Western monasticism (d. 397)
- Saint Lupus, the bishop who saved his city from the Huns (d. 623)
- Saint Dominic of Guzman (d.1221): an athlete of the faith
- Saint Francis, the poor man of Assisi (d. 1226)
- Saint Anthony of Padua: "everyone’s saint"
- Saint Simon Stock receives the scapular of Mount Carmel from the hands of the Virgin Mary
- The unusual boat of Saint Basil of Ryazan
- The extraordinary conversion of Michelina of Pesaro
- Saint Rita of Cascia: hoping against all hope
- Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria, physician of bodies and souls (d. 1539)
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola (d. 1556): "For the greater glory of God"
- Brother Alphonsus Rodríguez, SJ: the "holy porter" (d. 1617)
- Martin de Porres returns to speed up his beatification (d. 1639)
- Saint John Vianney (d. 1859): the global fame of a humble village priest
- Saints Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of Saint Therese of Lisieux (d. 1894 and 1877)
- Saint Faustina, apostle of the Divine Mercy (d. 1938)
- Brother Marcel Van (d.19659): a "star has risen in the East"
- Doctors
- The mystics
- Visionaries
- María de Jesús de Ágreda, abbess and friend of the King of Spain
- Sister Benigna Consolata: the "Little Secretary of Merciful Love" (d. 1916)
- The 700 extraordinary visions of the Gospel received by Maria Valtorta (d. 1961)
- The amazing geological accuracy of Maria Valtorta's writings (d. 1961)
- Maria Valtorta's astronomic observations consistent with her dating system
- Discovery of an ancient princely house in Jerusalem, previously revealed to a mystic (d. 1961)
- The popes
- The great witnesses of the faith
- Christian civilisation
- The depth of Christian spirituality
- Christ's interventions in history
- Marian apparitions and interventions
- The Life-giving Font of Constantinople
- Cotignac: the first apparitions of the Modern Era (1519)
- The Virgin Mary delivers besieged Christians in Cusco, Peru
- The victory of Lepanto and the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (1571)
- The apparitions to Brother Fiacre (1637)
- Our Lady of Nazareth in Plancoët, Brittany (1644)
- Saint Joseph’s apparitions in Cotignac, France (1660)
- The Holy Name of Mary and the major victory of Vienna (1683)
- Heaven and earth meet in Colombia: the Las Lajas shrine (1754)
- At La Salette, Mary wept in front of the shepherds (1846)
- Our Lady of Champion, Wisconsin: the first and only approved apparition of Mary in the US (1859)
- Gietrzwald apparitions: heavenly help to a persecuted minority
- The silent apparition of Knock Mhuire in Ireland (1879)
- Mary "Abandoned Mother" appears in a working-class district of Lyon, France (1882)
- Fontanelle-Montichiari apparitions of Our Lady "Rosa Mystica" (1947)
- Zeitoun apparitions
- Maria Esperanza Bianchini and Mary, Mary, Reconciler of Peoples and Nations (1976)
- Luz Amparo and the El Escorial apparitions
- The extraordinary apparitions of Medjugorje and their worldwide impact
- The Virgin Mary heals a teenager, then appears to him dozens of times (1986)
- Angels and their manifestations
- Exorcisms in the name of Christ
- A wave of charity unique in the world
- Saint Camillus de Lellis, reformer of hospital care (c. 1560)
- Saint Vincent de Paul (d. 1660), apostle of charity
- Frédéric Ozanam, inventor of the Church's social doctrine (d. 1853)
- Pier Giorgio Frassati (d.1925): heroic charity
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (d. 1997): an unshakeable faith
- Heidi Baker: Bringing God's love to the poor and forgotten of the world
- Amazing miracles
- Miraculous cures
- The royal touch: the divine thaumaturgic gift granted to French and English monarchs (11th-19th centuries)
- With 7,500 cases of unexplained cures, Lourdes is unique in the world (1858-today)
- Mariam, the "little thing of Jesus": a saint from East to West (d.1878)
- The miraculous cure of Blessed Maria Giuseppina Catanea
- Bruce Van Natta's intestinal regrowth: an irrefutable miracle (2007)
- Manouchak, operated on by Saint Charbel (2016)
- How Maya was cured from cancer at Saint Charbel's tomb (2018)
- Preserved bodies of the saints
- Bilocations
- Inedias
- Levitations
- Lacrimations and miraculous images
- Stigmates
- Eucharistic miracles
- Relics
- Jews discover the Messiah
- Max Jacob: a liberal gay Jewish artist converts to Catholicism (1909)
- Edith Stein - Saint Benedicta of the Cross: "A daughter of Israel who, during the Nazi persecutions, remained united with faith and love to the Crucified Lord, Jesus Christ, as a Catholic, and to her people as a Jew"
- Patrick Elcabache: a Jew discovers the Messiah after his mother is miraculously cured in the name of Jesus
- Cardinal Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger (d. 2007): Chosen by God
- Muslim conversions
- Buddhist conversions
- Atheist conversions
- Testimonies of encounters with Christ
- Near-death experiences (NDEs) confirm Catholic doctrine on the Four Last Things
- The NDE of Saint Christina the Astonishing, a source of conversion to Christ (1170)
- Blessed Dina Bélanger (d. 1929): loving God and letting Jesus and Mary do their job
- Gabrielle Bossis: He and I
- André Levet's conversion in prison
- Journey between heaven and hell: a "near-death experience" (1971)
- Providential stories
- The superhuman intuition of Saint Pachomius the Great
- The supernatural reconciliation of the Duke of Aquitaine (1134)
- Joan of Arc: "the most beautiful story in the world"
- John of Capistrano saves the Church and Europe (1456)
- How Korea evangelized itself (18th century)
- The prophetic poem about John Paul II (1840)
- Thérèse of Lisieux saved countless soldiers during the Great War
- In 1947, a rosary crusade liberated Austria from the Soviets (1946-1955)
- The discovery of the tomb of Saint Peter in Rome (1949)
- A protective hand saved John Paul II and led to happy consequences (1981)
- Edmond Fricoteaux's providential discovery of the statue of Our Lady of France (1988)
- The Virgin Mary frees a Vietnamese bishop from prison (1988)
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EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE
- Jesus
- Mary
- The Church
- The Bible
- The authors of the Gospels were either eyewitnesses or close contacts of those eyewitnesses
- Onomastics support the historical reliability of the Gospels
- The New Testament was not altered
- The New Testament is the best-attested manuscript of Antiquity
- The Gospels were written too early after the facts to be legends
- Archaeological finds confirm the reliability of the New Testament
- The criterion of embarrassment proves that the Gospels tell the truth
- The dissimilarity criterion strengthens the case for the historical reliability of the Gospels
- 84 details in Acts verified by historical and archaeological sources
- The unique prophecies that announced the Messiah
- The time of the coming of the Messiah was accurately prophesied
- The prophet Isaiah's ultra accurate description of the Messiah's sufferings
- Daniel's "Son of Man" is a portrait of Christ
- The Apostles
- The martyrs
- Saint Blandina and the Martyrs of Lyon: the fortitude of faith (177 AD)
- Thomas More: “The king’s good servant, but God’s first”
- The Martyrs of Compiègne (1794)
- The Vietnamese martyrs Father Andrew Dung-Lac and his 116 companions (17th-19th centuries)
- Blaise Marmoiton: the epic journey of a missionary to New Caledonia (d. 1847)
- Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Knight of the Immaculate (d. 1941)
- The monks
- Saint Benedict, father of Western monasticism (d. 550)
- Saint Bruno the Carthusian (d.1101): the miracle of a hidden life
- Blessed Angelo Agostini Mazzinghi: the Carmelite with flowers pouring from his mouth (d. 1438)
- Monk Abel of Valaam's accurate prophecies about Russia (d. 1841)
- The more than 33,000 miracles of Saint Charbel Maklouf (d. 1898)
- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (d. 1968): How God worked wonders through "a poor brother who prays"
- The saints
- Saints Anne and Joachim, parents of the Virgin Mary (19 BC)
- Saint Nazarius, apostle and martyr (d. 68 or 70)
- Ignatius of Antioch: successor of the apostles and witness to the Gospel (d. 117)
- Saint Gregory the Miracle-Worker (d. 270)
- Saint Martin of Tours: patron saint of France, father of monasticism in Gaul, and the first great leader of Western monasticism (d. 397)
- Saint Lupus, the bishop who saved his city from the Huns (d. 623)
- Saint Dominic of Guzman (d.1221): an athlete of the faith
- Saint Francis, the poor man of Assisi (d. 1226)
- Saint Anthony of Padua: "everyone’s saint"
- Saint Simon Stock receives the scapular of Mount Carmel from the hands of the Virgin Mary
- The unusual boat of Saint Basil of Ryazan
- The extraordinary conversion of Michelina of Pesaro
- Saint Rita of Cascia: hoping against all hope
- Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria, physician of bodies and souls (d. 1539)
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola (d. 1556): "For the greater glory of God"
- Brother Alphonsus Rodríguez, SJ: the "holy porter" (d. 1617)
- Martin de Porres returns to speed up his beatification (d. 1639)
- Saint John Vianney (d. 1859): the global fame of a humble village priest
- Saints Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of Saint Therese of Lisieux (d. 1894 and 1877)
- Saint Faustina, apostle of the Divine Mercy (d. 1938)
- Brother Marcel Van (d.19659): a "star has risen in the East"
- Doctors
- The mystics
- Visionaries
- María de Jesús de Ágreda, abbess and friend of the King of Spain
- Sister Benigna Consolata: the "Little Secretary of Merciful Love" (d. 1916)
- The 700 extraordinary visions of the Gospel received by Maria Valtorta (d. 1961)
- The amazing geological accuracy of Maria Valtorta's writings (d. 1961)
- Maria Valtorta's astronomic observations consistent with her dating system
- Discovery of an ancient princely house in Jerusalem, previously revealed to a mystic (d. 1961)
- The popes
- The great witnesses of the faith
- Christian civilisation
- The depth of Christian spirituality
- Christ's interventions in history
- Marian apparitions and interventions
- The Life-giving Font of Constantinople
- Cotignac: the first apparitions of the Modern Era (1519)
- The Virgin Mary delivers besieged Christians in Cusco, Peru
- The victory of Lepanto and the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (1571)
- The apparitions to Brother Fiacre (1637)
- Our Lady of Nazareth in Plancoët, Brittany (1644)
- Saint Joseph’s apparitions in Cotignac, France (1660)
- The Holy Name of Mary and the major victory of Vienna (1683)
- Heaven and earth meet in Colombia: the Las Lajas shrine (1754)
- At La Salette, Mary wept in front of the shepherds (1846)
- Our Lady of Champion, Wisconsin: the first and only approved apparition of Mary in the US (1859)
- Gietrzwald apparitions: heavenly help to a persecuted minority
- The silent apparition of Knock Mhuire in Ireland (1879)
- Mary "Abandoned Mother" appears in a working-class district of Lyon, France (1882)
- Fontanelle-Montichiari apparitions of Our Lady "Rosa Mystica" (1947)
- Zeitoun apparitions
- Maria Esperanza Bianchini and Mary, Mary, Reconciler of Peoples and Nations (1976)
- Luz Amparo and the El Escorial apparitions
- The extraordinary apparitions of Medjugorje and their worldwide impact
- The Virgin Mary heals a teenager, then appears to him dozens of times (1986)
- Angels and their manifestations
- Exorcisms in the name of Christ
- A wave of charity unique in the world
- Saint Camillus de Lellis, reformer of hospital care (c. 1560)
- Saint Vincent de Paul (d. 1660), apostle of charity
- Frédéric Ozanam, inventor of the Church's social doctrine (d. 1853)
- Pier Giorgio Frassati (d.1925): heroic charity
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (d. 1997): an unshakeable faith
- Heidi Baker: Bringing God's love to the poor and forgotten of the world
- Amazing miracles
- Miraculous cures
- The royal touch: the divine thaumaturgic gift granted to French and English monarchs (11th-19th centuries)
- With 7,500 cases of unexplained cures, Lourdes is unique in the world (1858-today)
- Mariam, the "little thing of Jesus": a saint from East to West (d.1878)
- The miraculous cure of Blessed Maria Giuseppina Catanea
- Bruce Van Natta's intestinal regrowth: an irrefutable miracle (2007)
- Manouchak, operated on by Saint Charbel (2016)
- How Maya was cured from cancer at Saint Charbel's tomb (2018)
- Preserved bodies of the saints
- Bilocations
- Inedias
- Levitations
- Lacrimations and miraculous images
- Stigmates
- Eucharistic miracles
- Relics
- Jews discover the Messiah
- Max Jacob: a liberal gay Jewish artist converts to Catholicism (1909)
- Edith Stein - Saint Benedicta of the Cross: "A daughter of Israel who, during the Nazi persecutions, remained united with faith and love to the Crucified Lord, Jesus Christ, as a Catholic, and to her people as a Jew"
- Patrick Elcabache: a Jew discovers the Messiah after his mother is miraculously cured in the name of Jesus
- Cardinal Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger (d. 2007): Chosen by God
- Muslim conversions
- Buddhist conversions
- Atheist conversions
- Testimonies of encounters with Christ
- Near-death experiences (NDEs) confirm Catholic doctrine on the Four Last Things
- The NDE of Saint Christina the Astonishing, a source of conversion to Christ (1170)
- Blessed Dina Bélanger (d. 1929): loving God and letting Jesus and Mary do their job
- Gabrielle Bossis: He and I
- André Levet's conversion in prison
- Journey between heaven and hell: a "near-death experience" (1971)
- Providential stories
- The superhuman intuition of Saint Pachomius the Great
- The supernatural reconciliation of the Duke of Aquitaine (1134)
- Joan of Arc: "the most beautiful story in the world"
- John of Capistrano saves the Church and Europe (1456)
- How Korea evangelized itself (18th century)
- The prophetic poem about John Paul II (1840)
- Thérèse of Lisieux saved countless soldiers during the Great War
- In 1947, a rosary crusade liberated Austria from the Soviets (1946-1955)
- The discovery of the tomb of Saint Peter in Rome (1949)
- A protective hand saved John Paul II and led to happy consequences (1981)
- Edmond Fricoteaux's providential discovery of the statue of Our Lady of France (1988)
- The Virgin Mary frees a Vietnamese bishop from prison (1988)
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