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Later Vatican narration of the 1323 canonization prints miracle-healings as proof

John XXII’s 18 July 1323 canonization, as retold in later Holy See anniversary letters and encyclopedias, rests in part on miracle-healings. The dated public carrier used here includes the 2023 Vatican anniversary letter that recalls that act. In the causal graph this event weakens Infectious-Disease Transmission, a driver that weakens Life expectancy at birth — an improving welfare path.

Later Vatican narration of the 1323 canonization prints miracle-healings as proof

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John XXII’s 18 July 1323 canonization, as retold in later Holy See anniversary letters and encyclopedias, rests in part on miracle-healings. The dated public carrier used here includes the 2023 Vatican anniversary letter that recalls that act. Miracle-proof can crowd out shared clinical explanation when taught as sufficient medicine.

Context

Canonization is not a clinic. Low confidence on any unique delay of hospitals.

Thomas Aquinas is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Printed miracle-healings as legal proof are a low-confidence rival to shared clinical capacity.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.16 · verified

    Named Dominican master as heading of later editions and papal acts. Printers, popes, and editors publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactLater Vatican narration of the 1323 canonization prints miracle-healings as proof
    2. weakensDriverInfectious-Disease Transmission
    3. weakensIndicators (3)Life expectancy at birth
    Mixed path

    impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 18 July 1323 · verified

    Printed miracle-healings as legal proof are a low-confidence rival to shared clinical capacity.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Francis, letter on the 700th anniversary of Aquinas’s canonization (30 June 2023)Holy See / vatican.va · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Saint Thomas AquinasEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorThomas Aquinas
  2. contributed toFactLater Vatican narration of the 1323 canonization prints miracle-healings as proof
  3. weakensDriverInfectious-Disease Transmission
  4. weakensIndicatorLife expectancy at birth

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Factrail. (2026). Later Vatican narration of the 1323 canonization prints miracle-healings as proof. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-health-relics-canonization

https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-health-relics-canonization

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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