Curated playlist
Miracle workers
- JesusJesus left no writings of his own. Almost everything known about him comes from accounts by others.
- MosesMichelangelo's statue of Moses has horns because of a mistranslation. A Latin Bible turned ray of light into horned.
- KrishnaA hunter mistook the sleeping Hindu god Krishna for a deer and shot him in the foot. Krishna forgave Jara and died.
- Guru NanakWherever Guru Nanak went, the locals could not tell whether he was a Hindu or a Muslim. He wore clothing associated with both Muslim fakirs and Hindu sadhus. Guru Nanak was an Indian spiritual teacher, mystic and poet. Today he is honoured…
- MuhammadMuhammad had lost his father, mother and grandfather by age eight. He founded a religion that spread across Arabia.
- Saint NicholasIn May 2017, over a million people queued in Moscow to glimpse a gilded ark holding a rib of Saint Nicholas of Myra. The rib was lent from Bari in Italy after talks between Pope Francis and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. It was…
- Santa MuerteSanta Muerte, whose name means Saint Death, is a skeleton in a long robe who is asked for healing, protection and a safe journey to the afterlife. Her devotees are estimated at 12 million. They are concentrated in Mexico, Central America…
- ElijahEvery Saturday evening, as the Sabbath ends, Jewish families perform the Havdalah ceremony and sing a plea for Elijah to arrive. The hymn goes: "Elijah the Prophet, Elijah the Tishbite, Elijah from Gilead. Let him come quickly, in our day…
- ZoroasterA sculpture of Zoroaster, completed in 1896 by Edward Clark Potter, towers over the Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State at East 25th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Potter intended it to stand for the judicial wisdom of…
- Sergius of RadonezhSergius of Radonezh turned down the chance to lead the whole Russian church.