Most of us are familiar with the New Testament miracle of the loaves and fishes. A crowd of more than 4,000 gathers to hear Jesus preach, but soon they grow hungry and Jesus’ disciples become concerned. All they have to feed the crowd are seven loaves of bread and a few small fishes. Jesus orders the food to be distributed, however, and miraculously all of the many people are fed.
Similar miracles have subsequently been performed by saints. One of the most famous is the miracle of the corn, performed by Andrew Fourmet, founder of Les Filles de la Croix, established to educate the poor. He was later canonized as a Catholic saint, in part due to the following incident.
It occurred around 1824 in France. A convent of nuns in La Puye fell into despair because they had almost no corn in their granary and no means by which to purchase any more. They feared starvation.
Hearing of their plight, Fourmet scolded the sisters for their lack of faith and reminded them of Christ’s miracle of the loaves and fishes. He then instructed the nuns to fetch what little corn they had and place it before him in two heaps. Fourmet then began to walk slowly around the two small mounds, deep in prayer.
Miraculously, thereafter the nuns were able to take away from the piles enough corn to feed nearly 200 of their sisters every day for the next 75 days – without diminishing the store of corn at all! It is said that Fourmet performed this miracle on several occasions, providing his school with cornflour for six months.
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