I am following the effort to make several important Catholic figures into saints.
For this to happen the Church requires evidence of three miracles.
I know what they traditionally mean by miracles because these miracles referred to the classic world before industrial commerce.
The question I have is how such miracles can be recognized in our contemporary era.
For example, an individual potential saint could have cured the illness of thousands of people simply by giving them penicillin or some other antibiotic at the right time. He or she could have treated the wounded with a similar modern product and saved their lives. Saintly miracle?
The potential saints could raise the dead if you define a person whose heart stopped beating as dead. We regularly raise the dead with defibrillators and heart surgery.
The potential saint could have given the deaf or dumb the ability to hear or speak with similar contemporary surgery or medical treatments. Saintly miracle?
I have only begun to enumerate the way that traditional miracles could be performed on a mundane basis in the contemporary commercial world.
So what would be a contemporary saintly miracle?
On the other hand, we non-saints often consider something a miracle when the technology works as specified. When a car starts easily the day after it came back from an incompetent mechanic's shop, we consider that a miracle. If our phone still works after we had dropped it, that is a miracle. We have adjusted our miracles to our modern technological world. OK?