It has been said that St. Patrick performed a thousand miracles. I really dont know of any other saint for whom has so many resurrection miracles during one apostolic lifetime like St. Patrick; there were as many as 39 of these wonders.

DEAD FOR 6 MONTHS

In one of the resurrection miracles was a prince in Humestia who was baptized. Later he expressed unbelief about the doctrine of the Resurrection.

After St. Patrick quoted various texts from the Scriptures, the prince said that if Patrick would raise his grandfather, by then buried about 6 months, he would believe in that Resurrection which Patrick preached.

Patrick signed the tomb of the grandfather with his staff, had it opened, and prayed.

A man of very great height, but not as big as a “giant” who had recently been raised from a huge tomb by Patrick, came forth from the tomb. He described the torments that went on in Hell, and was baptized.

He received the Eucharist, and retired again to his former sepulcher and “slept in the Lord.” After witnessing this miracle none doubted the truth of the Resurrection.

“For the blind and the lame, the deaf and the dumb, the palsied, the lunatic, the leprous, the epileptic, all who labored under any disease, did he in the Name of the Holy Trinity restore unto the power of their limbs and unto entire health; and in these good deeds was he daily practiced. Thirty and three dead men, some of whom had been many years buried, did this great reviver raise from the dead, as above we have more fully recorded.”

Further, the ancient author quotes from a reputed “epistle” (letter) of St. Patrick to a friend in a country beyond the sea:

“The Lord hath given to me, though humble, the power of working miracles among a barbarous people, such as are not recorded to have been worked by the great Apostles; inasmuch as, in the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, I have raised from the dead bodies that have been buried many years; but I beseech you, let no one believe that for these or the like works I am to be at all equaled with the Apostles, or with any perfect man, since I am humble, and a sinner, and worthy only to be despised.”

Perhaps because of rumors and his fame St. Patrick was trying to put things in proper perspective. The word “humble,” in his usage, probably meant “lowly” or “insignificant.” The author of the ancient manuscript observes that he admired the greatness of Patrick’s humility more than his raising of the dead. Patrick himself knew well that his abundance of charismatic gifts (given by God for the glory of God and the benefit of others), far from making him holy, could be a great liability.

Despite his limited number of references to his own greatness, and despite their modesty, it is obvious to anyone familiar with great missionary saints that the spiritual greatness indicated above and displayed in Patrick’s life would also call for the marvelous gifts often accompanying such apostles – the most common of which is the working of numerous miracles, including the raising of the dead.

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