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href="/wiki/Levitation_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Levitation (disambiguation)">Levitation (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Saints to whom the ability to fly or levitate has been attributed</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:San_Giuseppe_di_Copertino_18th_century_engraving.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/San_Giuseppe_di_Copertino_18th_century_engraving.jpg/250px-San_Giuseppe_di_Copertino_18th_century_engraving.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="375" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/San_Giuseppe_di_Copertino_18th_century_engraving.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="305" data-file-height="458" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino" title="Joseph of Cupertino">Joseph of Cupertino</a> is believed to have had the capability to levitate.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>levitation of saints</b> is the ability attributed to a <a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">saint</a> to <a href="/wiki/Flight" title="Flight">fly</a> or to <a href="/wiki/Levitation_(paranormal)" title="Levitation (paranormal)">levitate</a>. Most of these "flying saints" are mentioned as such in literature and sources associated with them. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Christianity">Christianity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Levitation_of_saints&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Levitation_(paranormal)#Christianity" title="Levitation (paranormal)">Levitation (paranormal)—Christianity</a></div> <p>The ability to levitate was attributed to figures in <a href="/wiki/Early_Christianity" title="Early Christianity">Early Christianity</a>. The apocryphal <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_Peter" title="Acts of Peter">Acts of Peter</a> gives a <a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">legendary</a> tale of <a href="/wiki/Simon_Magus" title="Simon Magus">Simon Magus</a>' death. Simon is performing <a href="/wiki/Magic_(paranormal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic (paranormal)">magic</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Forum" title="Roman Forum">Roman Forum</a>, and in order to prove himself to be a <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">god</a>, he flies up into the air. The apostle <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Peter</a> prays to God to stop his flying, and he stops mid-air and falls, breaking his legs, whereupon the crowd, previously non-hostile, stones him to death.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The church of <a href="/wiki/Santa_Francesca_Romana" title="Santa Francesca Romana">Santa Francesca Romana</a> claims to have been built on the spot in question (thus accepting the claim that Simon Magus could indeed fly), claims that <a href="/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle" title="Paul the Apostle">Paul</a> was also present, and that a dented slab of marble that it contains bears the imprints of the knees of Peter and Paul during their prayer.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Orthodoxy">Orthodoxy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Levitation_of_saints&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Orthodoxy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In recent times, <a href="/wiki/John_of_Shanghai_and_San_Francisco" title="John of Shanghai and San Francisco">John of Shanghai and San Francisco</a> was said to be levitating while in prayer; an individual witnessed this when checking in on him while he was in prayer. <a href="/wiki/George_of_Drama" title="George of Drama">George of Drama</a> was also seen levitating during the <a href="/wiki/Divine_Liturgy" title="Divine Liturgy">Divine Liturgy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Catholicism">Catholicism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Levitation_of_saints&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Catholicism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi" title="Francis of Assisi">Francis of Assisi</a> is recorded as having been "suspended above the earth, often to a height of three, and often to a height of four <a href="/wiki/Cubits" class="mw-redirect" title="Cubits">cubits</a>" (around 1.3 to 1.8 m). <a href="/wiki/Alphonsus_Liguori" title="Alphonsus Liguori">Alphonsus Liguori</a>, when preaching at <a href="/wiki/Foggia" title="Foggia">Foggia</a>, was lifted before the eyes of the whole congregation several feet from the ground.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Siena" title="Catherine of Siena">Catherine of Siena</a> was similarly said to be levitating while in prayer, and a priest claimed to have seen the <a href="/wiki/Holy_communion" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy communion">Holy communion</a> flying from his hand straight to Catherine's mouth.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Flying or levitation was also associated with <a href="/wiki/Witchcraft" title="Witchcraft">witchcraft</a>. When it came to female saints, there was a certain ambivalence expressed by theologians, <a href="/wiki/Canon_lawyers" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon lawyers">canon lawyers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inquisitors" class="mw-redirect" title="Inquisitors">inquisitors</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hagiography" title="Hagiography">hagiographers</a> towards the powers that they were purported to have. By 1500, the image of the female saint in popular imagination had become similar to that of the <a href="/wiki/Witch" class="mw-redirect" title="Witch">witch</a>. Both witches and female saints were suspected of flying through the air, whether in saintly levitation or bilocation, or in a <a href="/wiki/Witches%27_Sabbath" title="Witches' Sabbath">Witches' Sabbath</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bynum-23_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bynum-23-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Islam">Islam</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Levitation_of_saints&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Islam"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Levitation is a practice often described in Islamic literature from antiquity until well into the medieval era.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Revered prophets and Islamic saints are said to have flown.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Those named as capable of "flight" have included the <a href="/wiki/Prophet_Muhammed" class="mw-redirect" title="Prophet Muhammed">Prophet Muhammed</a>, the twelfth century Persian dervish, <a href="/wiki/Qutb_ad-D%C4%ABn_Haydar" title="Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar">Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar</a> and the ninth century Muslim saint <a href="/w/index.php?title=Abu_Yazid_al-Bestami&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abu Yazid al-Bestami (page does not exist)">Abu Yazid al-Bestami</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hinduism">Hinduism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Levitation_of_saints&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Hinduism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Levitation has also been cited outside of Islam and Christianity. In his book <i><a href="/wiki/Autobiography_of_a_Yogi" title="Autobiography of a Yogi">Autobiography of a Yogi</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Paramahamsa_Yogananda" class="mw-redirect" title="Paramahamsa Yogananda">Paramahamsa Yogananda</a> discusses Nagendranath Bhaduri, a saint said to levitate in India. The saint had mastered <i><a href="/wiki/Astanga_Yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Astanga Yoga">Astanga Yoga</a></i> and several Yogic techniques including various <i><a href="/wiki/Pranayama" title="Pranayama">pranayamas</a></i> or breathing techniques as mentioned in <a href="/wiki/Patanjali" title="Patanjali">Patanjali</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Yoga_Sutra" class="mw-redirect" title="Yoga Sutra">Yoga Sutra</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yogananda wrote that Nagendranath Bhaduri had performed <i><a href="/wiki/Bhastrika" title="Bhastrika">bhastrika</a> pranayama</i> so strongly that he felt like he was in the middle of a storm and after performing the <i>pranayama</i>, Bhaduri Mahasaya entered into a state of ecstatic calm. 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