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Polish nun Tobiana (back), the nurse of late Pope John Paul II and French nun Marie Simon-Pierre, whose unexplained healing was the miracle that qualified John Paul II for beatification display the casket containing the relics of late pope John Paul II during his beatification ceremony on May 1, 2011 at St Peter's square at The Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI bestowed the status of "blessed" on the late John Paul II on Sunday in Saint Peter's Square, filled to overflowing as more than one million people took part in the solemn mass. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO
Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, right, is flanked by sister Tobiana as she holds the glass reliquary containing the blood of late Pope John Paul II, during the beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, May 1, 2011. The Vatican has decreed that Sister Marie Simon-Pierre's inexplicable healing was the miracle needed to beatify John Paul, a process that will reach its culmination Sunday during a Mass in St. Peter's Square celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Polish nun Tobiana (L), the nurse of late Pope John Paul II and French nun Marie Simon-Pierre, whose unexplained healing was the miracle that qualified John Paul II for beatification display the casket containing the relics of late pope John Paul II during his beatification ceremony on May 1, 2011 at St Peter's square at The Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI bestowed the status of "blessed" on the late John Paul II on Sunday in Saint Peter's Square, filled to overflowing as more than one million people took part in the solemn mass. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO
RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/OSSERVATORE ROMANO" In this handout picture released by the Vatican Press Office on May 1, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI blesses French nun Marie Simon-Pierre, whose unexplained healing was the miracle that qualified his predecessor Pope John Paul II for beatification during the beatification at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI hailed John Paul II's "strength of a titan" in defending Christianity against "a tide which appeared irreversible" in a homily in Saint Peter's Square. RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/OSSERVATORE ROMANO"
PHOTO: WOJTEK LASKI/EAST NEWS WATYKAN 01/05/2011 MSZA BEATYFIKACYJNA PAPIEZA JANA PAWLA II NA PLACU SWIETEGO PAWLA. N/Z: POLSKA ZAKONNICA TOBIANA, KTORA TOWARZYSZYLA PAPIEZOWI DO OSTATNICH CHWIL ZYCIA I FRANCUSKA MARIE SIMON-PIERRE, KTOREJ WYZDROWIENIE UZNANO ZA CUD JANA PAWLA II WNOSZA RELIKWIARZ Z KRYSZTALOWA AMPULKA Z KRWIA JANA PAWLA DRUGIEGO
PHOTO: WOJTEK LASKI/EAST NEWS WATYKAN 01/05/2011 BEATYFIKACJA JANA PAWLA II NA PLACU SWIETEGO PIOTRA W WATYKANIE. N/Z FRANCUSKA ZAKONNICA MARIE SIMON-PIERRE NORMAND (BIALY HABIT) - UZDROWIONA DZIEKI WSTAWIENNICTWU JANA PAWLA II, UZNANYM ZA CUD I SIOSTRA TOBIANA SOBOTKA (CZARNY HABIT) - SERCANKA, KTORA PRACOWALA W APARTAMENTACH PAPIESKICH I OPIEKOWALA SIE PAPIEZEM DO JEGO SMIERCI. Beatification for late pope John Paul II on May 1, 2011 at St Peter's square at The Vatican
Costa Rican Floribeth Mora -- who says she was cured of a serious brain condition by a miracle attributed to late Pope John Paul II -- offers an interview to the press at her home, in Dulce Nombre de Tres Rios neighborhood, in Cartago, on July 5, 2013. Pope Francis gave the go-ahead on Friday for John Paul II to be made saint and granted a rare exception for canonisation at the same time for John XXIII, who had the same reformist views and personal touch as the current pontiff. AFP PHOTO/Hector RETAMAL
Costa Rican Floribeth Mora -- who says she was cured of a serious brain condition by a miracle attributed to late Pope John Paul II -- offers an interview to the press at her home, in Dulce Nombre de Tres Rios neighborhood, in Cartago, on July 5, 2013. Pope Francis gave the go-ahead on Friday for John Paul II to be made saint and granted a rare exception for canonisation at the same time for John XXIII, who had the same reformist views and personal touch as the current pontiff. AFP PHOTO/Hector RETAMAL
TOPSHOTS Costa Rican Floribeth Mora -- who says she was cured of a serious brain condition by a miracle attributed to late Pope John Paul II -- takes communion during mass at the "Nuestra Senora del Rescate de Ujarras" Church, located in Paraiso de Cartago, about 30 km from San Jose, on July 6, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Hector RETAMAL
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ Costa Rican Floribeth Mora speaks during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 at her residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. Mora's testimony in the miraculous healing of the aneurism she had in the right hemisphere of her brain in 2011 and that she ascribed to the intercession of late Pope John Paul II, was decisive for the canonization of the pope, scheduled for April 27th. AFP PHOTO/EZEQUIEL BECERRA
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ Costa Rican Floribeth Mora speaks during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 at her residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. Mora's testimony in the miraculous healing of the aneurism she had in the right hemisphere of her brain in 2011 and that she ascribed to the intercession of late Pope John Paul II, was decisive for the canonization of the pope, scheduled for April 27th. AFP PHOTO/EZEQUIEL BECERRA
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ Costa Rican Floribeth Mora speaks during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 at her residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. Mora's testimony in the miraculous healing of the aneurism she had in the right hemisphere of her brain in 2011 and that she ascribed to the intercession of late Pope John Paul II, was decisive for the canonization of the pope, scheduled for April 27th. AFP PHOTO/EZEQUIEL BECERRA
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ Costa Rican Floribeth Mora speaks during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 at her residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. Mora's testimony in the miraculous healing of the aneurism she had in the right hemisphere of her brain in 2011 and that she ascribed to the intercession of late Pope John Paul II, was decisive for the canonization of the pope, scheduled for April 27th. AFP PHOTO/EZEQUIEL BECERRA
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ Costa Rican Floribeth Mora speaks during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 at her residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. Her testimony in the miraculous healing of the aneurism she had in the right hemisphere of her brain in 2011 and that she ascribed to the intercession of late Pope John Paul II, was decisive for the canonization of the pope, scheduled for April 27th. AFP PHOTO/EZEQUIEL BECERRA
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ Costa Rican Floribeth Mora poses by a little chapel with the image of late Pope John Paul II set at the entrance of her home during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 at her residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. Her testimony in the miraculous healing of the aneurism she had in the right hemisphere of her brain in 2011 and that she ascribed to the intercession of late Pope John Paul II, was decisive for the canonization of the pope, scheduled for April 27th. AFP PHOTO/EZEQUIEL BECERRA
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ Costa Rican Floribeth Mora (C) sits with relatives and friends at her home during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 at her residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. Her testimony in the miraculous healing of the aneurism she had in the right hemisphere of her brain in 2011 and that she ascribed to the intercession of late Pope John Paul II, was decisive for the canonization of the pope, scheduled for April 27th. AFP PHOTO/EZEQUIEL BECERRA
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ Costa Rican Floribeth Mora speaks during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 at her residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. Mora's testimony in the miraculous healing of the aneurism she had in the right hemisphere of her brain in 2011 and that she ascribed to the intercession of late Pope John Paul II, was decisive for the canonization of the pope, scheduled for April 27th. AFP PHOTO/EZEQUIEL BECERRA
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ Costa Rican Floribeth Mora holds documents related to the life of Pope john Paul II during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 at her residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. Mora's testimony in the miraculous healing of the aneurism she had in the right hemisphere of her brain in 2011 and that she ascribed to the intercession of late Pope John Paul II, was decisive for the canonization of the pope, scheduled for April 27th. AFP PHOTO/EZEQUIEL BECERRA
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ Costa Rican Floribeth Mora speaks during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 at her residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. Her testimony in the miraculous healing of the aneurism she had in the right hemisphere of her brain in 2011 and that she ascribed to the intercession of late Pope John Paul II, was decisive for the canonization of the pope, scheduled for April 27th. AFP PHOTO/EZEQUIEL BECERRA
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIA ISABEL SANCHEZ Costa Rican Floribeth Mora stares at an image of late Pope John Paul II during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 at her residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. Her testimony in the miraculous healing of the aneurism she had in the right hemisphere of her brain in 2011 and that she ascribed to the intercession of late Pope John Paul II, was decisive for the canonization of the pope, scheduled for April 27th. AFP PHOTO/EZEQUIEL BECERRA