Miracles of Mary Stories Most Illustrated

These stories are named below, starting from the first most commonly illustrated (with 94 illustrations of the story in 46 manuscripts in the PEMM database) down to the thirty-second most commonly illustrated (with 29 illustrations of the story in 10 manuscripts in the PEMM database). Note that four other stories have a significant number of paintings in the PEMM database (between five and eleven paintings in between three and nine manuscripts). A total of 86 Miracle of Mary stories are illustrated in PEMM Täʾammərä Maryam manuscripts.

Most Commonly Illustrated

1. The noble man from Qemer who was a cannibal and ate 78 people, gave a drop of water to a beggar, and went to heaven
2. Bishop Hildephonsus of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Mary
3. A pregnant abbess is secretly delivered of her son by the Virgin Mary and he grows up to become a bishop
4. Two brothers were dyers from Dalga, Egypt, and one was tricked in a religious debate and imprisoned
5. A young man who used to crown the icon of the Virgin Mary with roses
6. The church of the Virgin Mary that moved by itself to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea
7. Dabra Qalemon's gifts from two Arabs who, journeying on the Nile in Egypt, fall into the water due to a storm and are saved from crocodiles
8. A European man, lame due to a stone foot, is healed by praying in front of the icon of the Virgin Mary
9. Dabra Nagadeyan's dying monk prays in front of her icon to go to Jerusalem and the Virgin Mary takes him from Lower Egypt to all around the holy land
10. The sinful deacon whom his enemies could not kill until he had confessed himself to a priest
11. The former pagan, the Bishop of Rome, who cut off his hand because of a lustful thought and the Virgin Mary healed him
12. The rich man from Colossae who was shot in the eye with an arrow while fighting the Qwez
13. Bishop Mercurius contracted leprosy and the patriarch banned him from serving communion due to his ailment
14. Dabra Qalemon's monk who humbly pretends not to fast and is saved from his brothers by the Virgin Mary
15. A widow who could not find husbands for her three daughters
16. Elizabeth, the blind Egyptian girl from Badraman, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milk
17. A widow who saved her only son from execution by hanging when she prayed to the Virgin Mary
18. The two brothers who were scribes and while copying the Miracles of the Virgin Mary fell into sin
19. Katir, the old priest from Al-Kasus, who was mistreated by a church custodian, is restored to strength by the Virgin Mary
20. The two women who were attacked by robbers on their way to church
21. The monastic scribe who used to write the Virgin Mary's name in golden ink
22. A poor woman with a broken leg is healed by the icon of the Virgin Mary in the church of Harat ar-Rum in Cairo
23. Maryam, an Egyptian child from Defra, who wanted to receive Communion but whose family locked her in the house when they went to church
24. The pregnant woman who was caught by a wave while going to the church of Saint Michael (Mont Saint Michel) and gives birth underwater protected by the Virgin Mary's cloak
25. The French artist knocked off his scaffolding by Satan (who was angry because of how he was being painted) is caught by the Virgin Mary
26. An old monk from Egypt whom the Virgin Mary made young again
27. The Egyptian monk Issac who prayed every night for seven years that the Virgin Mary would appear to him
28. John Bakansi, the blind Egyptian monk, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milk George the Younger, the martyr, was visited in prison by the Virgin Mary
29. A deacon prayed the prayer that contained the word 'rejoice' five times for the five joys of the Virgin Mary
30. The laborer who complained to the Virgin Mary because she did not reply to his Hail Mary
31. As a girl, the Virgin Mary gave water in her shoe to a thirsty dog
32. Ephrem the Syrian Potter who composed the praise hymn called Weddase Maryam over seven days

Commonly Illustrated but not part of the Top 32

The next four stories are illustrated in three to nine manuscripts. 

1. Atrib's Virgin Mary Church and the monk who saved it with his prayers when its destruction had been ordered by the Caliph.  (3 manuscripts have paintings of this story, from the 1600s through the 1800s)
2. The nominal Christian from Sidon who encountered a serpent/dragon/snake in the desert of Scete (same as 1231?)   (3 manuscripts have paintings of this story, from the late 1600s through the 1800s)
3. The sinful deacon who was healed from his illness by a drop of the Virgin Mary's breast milk (3 manuscripts have paintings of this story, from the late 1600s through the 1800s)
4. A monk without food or clothes received a garment from the Virgin Mary (9 manuscripts have paintings of this story, from the late 1600s through the 1800s)