From The Trumpet-The path was cleared for former pope John Paul II to be declared a saint when the Vatican’s board of theologians of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints announced on Tuesday that they had attributed a second miracle to him. Church officials haven’t disclosed the nature of the miracle, but Vatican insiders say the late pope worked it after his death, and that it will “amaze the world” when the account is made public sometime in the next few weeks.
The sainthood process for a pope normally takes decades or even centuries, but John Paul II’s successor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, fast-tracked it for the late pontiff, opening investigations into many miracles attributed to him. During his 27-year papacy, the Polish pope had become one of the most popular pontiffs in history. Benedict saw that Protestant churches had been swept into an unprecedented fervor of papal adulation at the time of John Paul II’s death, and he wanted to capitalize on the euphoria.
The healing of a French nun from Parkinson’s disease was declared as John Paul II’s first miracle. It led to his beatification on May 1, 2011, by Benedict XVI. The church’s rules say a pope must be beatified before he can be made a saint. Insider sources said this week that John Paul II’s second miracle took place on the very day of that beatification—several years after his death. Reports say the miracle involved a Costa Rican woman’s “extraordinary healing” from severe brain injury after she and members of her family started praying to the dead pope.
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