wonderworking

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Medieval Russians carried wonderworking icons into battle against the Tartars, held them aloft in religious processions, encrusted church partitions with them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet through Don Ardito's occasional wonderworking, Novelist Coccioli compellingly argues his central thesis: that the saint is not a spiritual generator, but a spiritual conductor through whom the current of godliness electrically flows.

From Time Magazine Archive

To us also God is “a Doer of wonders,” but we experience His wonderworking powers in ourselves.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

From the belief in the healing and wonderworking power of excrement sprang moreover the famous filth pharmacy, that was held in no little esteem.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

The divine, wonderworking, risen Jesus, is the necessary counterpart of the amazed, believing, erring hoping, desponding, rejoicing fishermen and publicans.

From The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing by Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)