clear that the motive that prompts them is simply hunger.

The Ire of God

The natural phenomena are looked upon thru ignorance as manifestations
of the divine wrath which would not have taken place if no one among
humanity had not provoked them by their conduct. Saint Thomas Aquinas,
who with reason is considered as the most scientific man of his
period, believed firmly that the thunder, lightning, and the storms
were punitive manifestations of God enraged against men. "From his
fear of God, the saintly doctor had an unearthly fear of thunder and
tempests, who as a reverent child feared to see wrath in the face of
the Father, hoping only that those tempests were not provoked by his
sins" (Milicia Angelica, Manila, 1907, p. 21).

The blind fear of Saint Thomas led him to conceive a blind justice
of the divinity, because of his sins God released the tempests and
gave lightning which naturally hurt and molested a great number of
persons who suffered by reason of the sins of the saint. To the simple
believer, when the wise saint thought and believed in that manner,
there was no reason for rejecting the explanation, much less to
suspect that to punish justly the sinners was not an act of justice
nor of common sense.

Lack of Logic

Logical mentality cannot be developed when the absurd is fomented and
cultivated, especially when it is presented under the false veneer
of religion, when it is founded on a purely puerile and simple
superstition.

In the life of Saint Vicente Ferrer, according to his novenas, the
following miracles are referred to, and there is no doubt that he
who believes in them cannot really cultivate the faculties of his
intelligence.

In Valencia a servant of Count de Faura, who was born deaf and
without tongue, was that way for many years, and adoring one
day the miracle of Saint Vicente, was cured of his deafness,
his tongue grew, and thenceforward spoke (p. 17).

A woman gave birth to a piece of meat (pedazo de carne) without
a human aspect. It was offered to Saint Vicente giving a mass,
and at the Epistle, it already had head; at the Gospel, it
had arms; and at the Consecration, it had legs, and finally
a beautiful child was evolved. The same happened with another
woman of Toledo (p. 34).

In Lisbon there lived a woman well-known for being quite
ugly and was the object of ridicule on the part of all who
saw her. She went to Sa