One of the most famous miracles credited to St. Francis of Paola is his sailing across the Strait of Messina from Calabria, Italy, to Sicily with two of his disciples on his cloak. The friar and his disciples were so poor, they could not pay the boatman to ferry them,and he had refused to take them. This incident led to Francis’s being named a patron saint of sailors.
According to legend, St. Francis of Paola also resurrected his pet lamb after it had been slaughtered and roasted and had revived a cooked fish that he subsequently released into a pond. Other miraculous events credited to Francis include raising at least six people from the dead, including a man who had been crushed by a tree; healing numerous people with the use of herbs or simply by the laying of hands; and multiplying a loaf of bread to feed a crowd.