Around 1100, Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153) reportedly placed a boy’s withered hand on a dead saint’s hand and the boy’s hand was healed.[68] Bernard wrote about Malachy (1094–1148), whom he knew and whose coworkers he consulted, recounting twelve healings attributed to him.[69] Traditions have often attributed miracles to St. Francis (1182–1226),[70] such as the immediate cure of a leper’s flesh.[71] Sometimes descriptions of the conditions healed are detailed enough to allow tentative diagnoses by modern specialists.[72]
