Fortuitously got hold of a fantastic book “The Miracle Man” authored by Frank Lucius Packard a Canadian novelist born in Montreal, Quebec and educated at McGill University and the University of Liege.

Two films based on the novel were created—A black-and-white silent movie in 1919 (Lon Chaney’s) and another in 1932. Some surviving footage of the 1919 film can be viewed at Internet Archive identifier: youtube-Z_Mk4pjydBk.

Source: en.wikisource.org

Few excerpts from the fascinating book "The Miracle Man':

"Unquestionably," wrote the Patriarch, "if you really put it aside. Faith is the simplest thing in the world and the most complex—but it is fundamental. Without faith nothing is possible; with faith nothing is impossible."

“Faith is an inheritance common to the human race; and the human race in its daily life, in its daily dealings, man to man, could not go on without it—but faith is a matter of degree. Faith, in the abstract, the element of it, is inborn in every soul; and while dormant, until put to a crucial test along any given line, is boundless and unlimited—a sort of tacitly accepted, existing state, unquestioned. Faith in many is a sturdy, virile thing—to a certain point.”

“Tenser grew the very atmosphere they breathed—heavier upon them fell the sense of something almost supernatural, beyond the human and the finite. Skeptic and faint believer, sinner, Christian and scoffer, they were all alike now in the presence of a faith whose evidence was before them in

arrowing vividness, in the torment and agony of a fellow creature who sought again through faith a restoration to the image of his kind. There was no creed, no school of ethical belief, no conflicting orthodoxy to quibble over, no ground on which atheist and theologian even might stand apart—there was only faith—a faith whose trappings none might take issue with, for it was naked faith and the trappings were stripped from it—it was faith”

"And!" he said breathlessly, "and—and did he ever do a really, truly-truly miracle?" "Yes, my son," he said; "and some day when you are a man you will understand how great a miracle it was”