I remember being a kid in Catholic school and learning about how saints have to have 3 miracles attributed to them to be canonized. At that age I was like okay I can buy this guy Jesus was doing miracles 2000 years ago but theres no way saints are doing all these miracles constantly in the modern day that’s just silly
My favorite is when Mary supposedly appeared to some kids and told them three secrets, then instructed them to reveal two of them. The Vatican then forced one of the girls to reveal the third secret after she refused to, saying Mary said it wasn’t ready.
Fatima is the direct reason church now don’t belive any visions and want to curbstomp the visionaries because it can spiral out of their control and create nasty theological and more importantly political problems. While in medieval times people like bishop Thietmar had roughly 3 miraculous visions per year in his dreams and nobody batted an eye.
I also feel like that’s such a silly requirement. Why three? “Alright, we all agree that God almighty intervened in our earthly affairs on your behalf, but if you wanna be remembered you better get him to do it twice more. We wanna be sure it wasn’t a fluke when god helped you.”
It’s either that or
“Yeah we all get a miracle every now and again, don’t freak out about it. I remember when I had my first, back in '68 I think, wild times. Oh wait you’ve had three? Why didn’t you say so, right this way Mr. Saint”
I remember being a kid in Catholic school and learning about how saints have to have 3 miracles attributed to them to be canonized. At that age I was like okay I can buy this guy Jesus was doing miracles 2000 years ago but theres no way saints are doing all these miracles constantly in the modern day that’s just silly
My favorite is when Mary supposedly appeared to some kids and told them three secrets, then instructed them to reveal two of them. The Vatican then forced one of the girls to reveal the third secret after she refused to, saying Mary said it wasn’t ready.
Very serious institution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Secrets_of_Fátima
Fatima is the direct reason church now don’t belive any visions and want to curbstomp the visionaries because it can spiral out of their control and create nasty theological and more importantly political problems. While in medieval times people like bishop Thietmar had roughly 3 miraculous visions per year in his dreams and nobody batted an eye.
I also feel like that’s such a silly requirement. Why three? “Alright, we all agree that God almighty intervened in our earthly affairs on your behalf, but if you wanna be remembered you better get him to do it twice more. We wanna be sure it wasn’t a fluke when god helped you.”
It’s either that or
“Yeah we all get a miracle every now and again, don’t freak out about it. I remember when I had my first, back in '68 I think, wild times. Oh wait you’ve had three? Why didn’t you say so, right this way Mr. Saint”
One might be for the devil. Two for the show. Three go!
One for the money, two for the better green
3, 4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine
Three is a powerful magical number.
Prime numbers are basically divine.
2 is also a prime number 🤓
But you are right, that is a good explanation. Still funny we need more than one