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Thaumaturgy is the miracle of laying on of hands.

Summary

1 Origin of term employment
2 Wonderworker in the Catholic Church
3 Kings thaumaturgists
4 Adjective
5 Citation
6 Bibliography
7 External links
8 Notes and references

/ / Origin of term employment

From the Greek "that which makes juggling acts" it becomes, in the Christian era, "he who makes miracles," the term applies mainly to the miracles of healing.

thauma which means miracle, prodigy
urgein means to produce, operate

By extension, a magician is a person who claims to perform miracles, to defy the laws of nature (synonym magician ) ^{Miracle-worker in the Catholic Church}

The title is given to the miracle worker who heals miraculously. In the Christian faith, the first miracle worker was Jesus Christ , which many miraculous cures are recorded in the Gospels. Then the healing power was transmitted to his disciples {{insufficient reference] }}. Several centuries later, in Christianized Europe, many local traditions evoke saints known for their healing they bring. Their popularity was such that their chapels were dedicated, they are displayed as statues or staged in tables. Often from the oral tradition, a number of miracle-workers, however, was recognized by the Catholic Church. Their cures are attributed to God every time: indeed, in the Catholic religion, the saint has no magical power, he has a gift from God in healing, it fulfills the will of God. This healing power endures beyond death, where the veneration which he continues to be long after his death. For much of the Catholic population at the time care was expensive and not necessarily effective, the use of these saints was an alternative serious consideration.

Among the holy miracle-workers include:

Kings thaumaturgists

According to a secular tradition and not in the Catholic faith, the kings of France were supposed to cure scrofula by touch, by uttering the sentence "The king touches you, God heals," and the Restoration "The King you button, God will heal. "The use of the subjunctive, so lessens the impact of the power of the king on the healing of those affected.
In the eighteenth ^century , the British rulers had the privilege to cure the epilepsy , the kings of Spain were issuing the possessed.