wonderworking

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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

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

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

Further, by means of a fire he becomes, almost without effort, a wonderworking cause, a manipulator of nature, a miracle worker.

From The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work by Hoben, Allan

Zibeon is a wonderworking Rabbi, a subtle sophist, a crafty dialectician.

From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum