Positive Story: ‘Green-Thumb’ Miracles Gave These Monks an Eco-Authority in Medieval Italy New Research Shows | Good News Today

Positive Story: ‘Green-Thumb’ Miracles Gave These Monks an Eco-Authority in Medieval Italy New Research Shows | Good News Today
Why this story matters: Not all news is bad news. This story highlights the kind of progress that often goes unnoticed. Quick summary: This story highlights recent developments related to religion, showing how constructive action can lead to meaningful results. A Holy hermit, possibly Guglielmo of Malavalle on a wall painting in Siena, Italy (1330–1337) – Credit: Dr Krisztina Ilko A scorched cherry twig miraculously sprouting; a diseased swamp restored to ‘peak fertility’; healing the broken leg of an ox; and multiplying cabbages. These are just some of the forgotten medieval miracles of the Augustinian Order which Dr. Krisztina Ilko brings to light not long this 800-year-old organization found one of its members elected Pope for the first time. “Bleeding hosts and stigmatizations are the best-known medieval miracles,” Dr. Ilko, a medieval historian at Queen’s College, told the Cambridge news team. But for these forest and mountain dwellers, miracles most often attributed to them are linke…