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That's the problem with such questions, the “If’. For a question of possibility to make sense it must be a real possibility from the get go.
Secondly would be the need to accept that the evidence was really evidence and not simply fraud and trickery.
Thirdly that the evidence if accepted as such would must lead to the conclusion asserted.
Lastly it would have to fit within some overall pattern of understanding of the Scriptures.

So rhetorically? Perhaps so. The situation doesn't exist so “perhaps” is the only accurate answer I can give.

St. Dominic's legend has him raising the dead, increasing the wine, the bread and curing a woman of seven devils, Satan appears to him as an ape AND a lizard.
Nuns and various others are cured, orders founded..............and he still found time to look sharp. Yes, ahem.

PART III

THE LEGEND OF ST DOMINIC
by Blessed Cecilia Cesarine, O.S.B
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Dominic, evidently, was Elvis.

I mean that both he and Francis were quite remarkable. Legends, whether embroidered or not, don't grow up about non-entities as a rule.

But whenever one hears miracle stories, I think it's important to remember that Francis or Dominic -- or Peter! -- would have been horrified if they thought that people thought THEY did the miracles.

It was angels that brought the loaves, not any mojo of Dominic's. And he would never, as I imagine from the little I DO know, let anyone say (as I did) that HE raised the dead. If they were raised, God raised them. Dominic prayed.

But more than 100 years after his death, Dante is covering him with praise. I think both he and Francis were like "judges" whom God raised up when the Church was floundering. And their sacrificial, bold, and innovative response to the stagnation of their era and the encroachments of heresy and apathy was so striking that in an age before PR flaks, they rapidly got reputations which live on to this day. Franciscans may be dull academics, and Dominicans may have sold indulgences (Tetzel was one of ours), but the ideal persists, though more Protestants know about Francis than they do about my guy.