MIracles of Mary Stories about Dreams

Many Täˀammərä Maryam stories have the word "dream" in them, but the following are the subset of stories in which dreams play a significant role:

Healing

• John Bakansi, the blind Egyptian monk, whose eyes the Virgin Mary healed with her breast milk
• The monk Abraham who drank poisonous water while on a journey to visit the patriarch of Alexandria and died but was raised from the dead.
• A Cairo woman's daughter, who lived by the Nile river and became blind due to too much reading and study but was healed by the Virgin Mary
• Bishop Mercurius contracted leprosy and the patriarch banned him from serving communion due to his ailment
• A man with paralysis who was healed on the Feast of Our Lady's Assumption

Poverty & Generosity

• The noblewoman who was persuaded by her priest to give away her fine clothes
• A merchant who distributed as alms the money that had been loaned to him by a friend after the merchant gave away all his wealth to the poor
• The gardener named Absadi, of Saint Shenute's monastery, who gave the monks' vegetables away to the poor but was defended by Abba Shenoute
• A widow who could not find husbands for her three daughters

Hell & Death

• The nun who was dissuaded from eloping with a knight after seeing a vision of hell
• The nun who used to pray for the dead lost her virginity but died before completing her penance and the Virgin Mary delivered her from hell
• A bishop's prayers enable his rich dead father to move from hell, body part by body part, and then go to heaven
• A bishop who was commanded by the Virgin Mary in a dream to bury an executed robber in consecrated ground
• Vision of a certain saint about the fate of a priest who swore falsely.

Faith

• A monk, the church custodian, who prayed to see the Virgin Mary and did
• A young man, who put the ring he had received from his girlfriend on the finger of a Virgin Mary statue, and was rebuked on his wedding night by Mary for deserting her
• The faded icon of the Virgin Mary that the mother-in-law wanted to discard.
• The church of the Virgin Mary that moved by itself to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

Violence

• A mighty Roman emperor named Julian the Apostate threatens to destroy the monastery of the Virgin Mary
• A wicked man who spoke more and more blasphemously of the Virgin Mary and she cut off his hands and feet after warning him in dreams
• Dabra Timona's monk, Efrem, who is swallowed by a dragon but the dragon is compelled to vomit him up alive ten days later

Wealth

• A magistrate whom the king accused of embezzlement and the Virgin Mary saved from execution
• A couple that were guided by the wife's dream to find buried money with which to build a shrine to the Virgin Mary.
• Mary gives a prodigal son two grains of gold and a trader uses them to buy a cat and sell it for a fortune to a cat-less kingdom overrun by mice
• A young woman keeps twenty dinar of gold and silver in a tanned leather pouch, but a dog eats it and then vomits it back up
• King Dawit I, (1382- 1413) Ethiopian monarch, and the miracle concerning the golden ink during his reign
• King Kaleb, the 6th c. Ethiopian monarch, is helped by the Virgin Mary while on his campaign conquering Himyar (Yemen) and after which he becomes a monk

Muslims & Jews

• The Arabs who tried to plunder an Egyptian monastery during a famine in the time of the Patriarch Matthew and kidnap a monk when thwarted
• The Muslim Egyptian ruler's son who insulted the icon of the Virgin Mary and saw a vision of Christ enthroned
• A Muslim merchant from Cairo who was imprisoned in Greece promised the Virgin Mary that he would convert if she helped him escape and he converted in Jerusalem
• A Jew is led to baptism by a dream about a lion and a monk; afterwards he curses a Jew at the latter's request.

Sex

• A monk, while guarding a church, has a wet dream and finds himself suddenly outside the courtyard of the church.
• A young monk is horrified when he has a sexual dream.
• Gadam Martula Maryam's icon of the Virgin Mary complains to a man named Walda Iyasusis because his brother Kidane Maryam kept her next to the bed where he slept with his wife