Statue of St Francis in his home town of Assisi Photo credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images |
To read the headlines, you might be tempted to believe a miracle has been prove true by scientists.
What's been proven, if anything, is just how little evidence is needed before the promoters of religious superstitions start to proclaim proof.
The mythical miracle this time is one I confess I had never heard of and about which the details, as with all the best of miracles, is sadly in very short supply. It is the 'miracle' of St Francis of Assisi's bread which, in 1224, so the story goes, a sack-full of which appeared on the doorstep of the Franciscan Friary of Folloni in southern Italy, so saving the brothers within from starvation, the friary being cut off by snow.