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Pope John Paul's Blood Set To Be Worshipped At Vatican

"Pope John Paul's blood to go on display will be available for veneration at John Paul II's beatification after being taken from pontiff as he lay dying...."

Nun Marie Simon-Pierre Normand worships a glass reliquary containing the blood of the late

Pope John Paul II during his beatification mass in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican May 1, 2011.

May 1, 2011 (Apr. 26, 2011)

Pope John Paul's blood to go on display at Vatican

By John Hooper

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/26/pope-john-paul-blood-vatican

     More than 50 heads of state and several hundred thousand pilgrims are expected in Rome for Pope John Paul II's beatification. A phial filled with the blood of the late pope John Paul II will go on display at his beatification on Sunday and become available for veneration (to honor as an icon or a relic with a ritual act of devotion = worship). The Vatican said the blood, which had been stored in a Rome hospital, had been kept in a liquid state by an anti-coagulant that was added when it was taken from him. The Polish pontiff is to be beatified at a service celebrated by his successor, Benedict XVI. More than 50 heads of state and several hundred thousand pilgrims are expected in Rome for the occasion. The Vatican said doctors had taken a quantity of blood from the pontiff while he lay dying, which had been sent in four containers to the blood transfusion centre at the Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome. Two "remained at the disposal" of his private secretary, Stanislaw Dziwisz, who was later made a cardinal and the archbishop of Krakow.

     The remaining two phials stayed in the hospital where they were "devoutly safeguarded by the nuns" who work there as nurses. Both had been put into reliquaries: ornate relic containers that are usually made with precious metals and stones. One of the reliquaries was to be returned to the hospital. The other would be exhibited on Sunday and then be kept with other relics (Titulus Crucis is the sign that hung over Christ's Head, naming Him as "King of the Jews," actual hearts of Popes, a Crucifixion nail, relic of the True Cross, two thorns from the Crown of Thorns, the greater part of the sponge used to give Christ vinegar, a piece of the cross of the good thief (St. Dismas), finger of St. Thomas the Apostle in the Vatican, Mary’s engagement ring.) Beatification is the final stage before canonization, though not all those who are beatified – and are thereafter styled Blessed – are raised to sainthood. Pope John Paul II is to be beatified barely six years after his death. He was fast-tracked after the Vatican accepted he was responsible for the miraculous cure of a French nun. One miracle is sufficient for beatification; two are required for canonization. (What scripture in the Bible claims that bologna?)

Pope John Paul II's Body Exhumed Ahead Of Beatification

Thousands Gather In Rome;

Coffin Will Be Placed In St. Peter's Basilica For Viewing

Apr. 29, 2011

Pope John Paul II's body exhumed ahead of beatification

By msnbc.com news services

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42819424/ns/world_news/

     VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II's coffin was exhumed on Friday ahead of his beatification as tens of thousands of people began arriving in Rome for one of the biggest events since his funeral in 2005.  The Vatican said the coffin was removed from the crypts below St. Peter's Basilica while top Vatican officials and some of the late pope's closest aides looked on and prayed. Those present at the ceremony included Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, his personal secretary and right-hand man for decades, and the Polish nuns who ran the papal household for 27 years. The wooden coffin will be placed in front of the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica. After Sunday's beatification mass, it will remain in that spot and the basilica will remain open until all visitors who want to view it have done so. It will then be moved to a new crypt under an altar in a side chapel near Michelangelo's statue of the Pieta. The marble slab that covered his first burial place will be sent to Poland. The pope is being beatified on the day the church celebrates the movable Feast of Divine Mercy, which this year happens to fall on May 1, the most important feast in the communist world.

     Rome festooned with balloons: As the Vatican prepares to move the late pontiff one step closer to sainthood this Sunday, Rome has been caught up with beatification fever. The city is festooned with posters of the pope on buses and hanging from lamp posts as the city where he was bishop for 27 years awaits one of the largest crowds since his funeral in 2005, when millions came to pay tribute. Large television towers are being erected along Via Della Conciliazione, the boulevard leading from the Tiber to the Vatican. At least several hundred thousand people are expected at the mass in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, when John Paul's successor Pope Benedict XVI will pronounce a Latin formula declaring one of the most popular popes in history a "blessed" of the Church. At least 16 heads of state and 87 official delegations from around the world will attend the beatification, the last step before sainthood in the Roman Catholic.

     A 'miracle' cure: The Vatican has deemed that the otherwise inexplicable cure of a French nun, Marie Simon-Pierre Normand, who was suffering from Parkinson's disease, was due to John Paul's intercession with God to perform a miracle, thus permitting the beatification to go ahead. (The Pope had actually died before the "miracle" took place, having Parkinson’s disease himself. The miracle supposedly happened because she prayed to him, after he died.) Another miracle will have to be attributed to John Paul's intercession after the beatification in order for him to be declared a saint. Beatification-related activities begin on Saturday night in Rome's Circus Maximus, the sprawling oval used by the ancient Romans for chariot races. An all-night prayer vigil will be held in the oval, during which Normand, Dziwisz and Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the pope's long-time spokesman, will describe their experiences with him. John Paul's beatification has set a new speed record for modern times, taking place six years and one month after his death on April 2, 2005.

     Poles joyful: Across Poland — a heavily Roman Catholic country — the faithful are voicing joy and pride as the ceremony draws closer. Many pilgrims are boarding buses and trains for the roughly 30-hour journey to Rome, while many more are expected to fill squares in Warsaw, Krakow and his hometown of Wadowice to follow it on large video screens. The atmosphere of celebration contrasts sharply with the deep sense of mourning after John Paul died in 2005. At the time, black ribbons and packed churches were expressions of the widespread grief felt at the country's loss of its most respected moral authority and a figure credited with helping end communism. "For us, in fact, the Holy Father was already a saint during his lifetime, and after his death even more," said Ewa Filipiak, the mayor of Wadowice, the small town in southern Poland where Karol Wojtyla, the future pope, was born. Warsaw Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz this week called the beatification a historic moment and predicted that the late pontiff will go down in history as "Pope John Paul II the Great." (Most will remember him has pope John Paul II who allowed pedophile priests to run rampant.)

Vatican artwork: A dragon fountain at entrance to St. Peter's Basilica

Entrance to the Gallery of Maps Dragon Crest: the coat-of-arms for Gregory XIII

Here is a photo of the Pope at the end of an audience with Patriarch Raphael I of Iraq where "the Pope bowed to the Muslim holy book the Qu'ran presented to him by the delegation and kissed it as a sign of respect."

Pope John Paul II Receives The Mark of "Aarti," A Prayer To The Hindu Goddess Durga
This is a photo of the pope receiving the mark of a prayer "aarti" to the Hindu female goddess Durga by a professing Christian Hindu woman.  By the time this photo was taken, however, the pope had already been involved in a number of pagan rituals on his trip to India in 1986, including taking the mark of Shiva. 

John Paul II with heretics, schismatics and pagans at Assisi (Oct. 27, 1986).

What’s The Deal With Miracles?

Apr. 26, 2011

What’s the deal with miracles?

by John L Allen Jr

http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/beatification-qa-2-what%E2%80%99s-deal-miracles

     ROME -- In one way or another, miracles have always been part of the sainthood process. Well before the Catholic church had a formal system of canonization, grassroots devotions to saints were usually premised both on someone’s reputation for personal holiness and their wonder-working power. By the 16th century, a candidate for sainthood who wasn’t a martyr had to have a “reputation for sanctity and miracles” in order to be beatified, and at least two more miracles had to be documented before canonization. John Paul dropped the number to one miracle for beatification and one more for canonization, but the requirement remains. The logic is straight-forward: When the church declares someone a saint, it means she or he is already in Heaven. A miracle, worked in response to a request made in prayer, is seen as confirmation that the person is indeed in Heaven and capable of interceding with God.

      In theory, the miracle could be any act of divine intervention. For instance, when the Croatian nun Marija Petković was beatified in 2003, her miracle concerned a lieutenant on a Peruvian submarine sunk by a Japanese fishing trawler in 1988. According to a church investigation, the lieutenant prayed for Petković’s help and was granted superhuman strength that allowed him to open a hatch against several thousands of pounds of water pressure, saving the lives of 22 crewmen. In most cases, however, the miracles studied for purposes of beatification and canonization involve healings from illness. Those healings are examined by consulters to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints, both a panel of medical experts and a panel of theologians.

     According to the traditional criteria, for a healing to be certified as miraculous, it must be: Immediate-Complete-Permanent- and Scientifically inexplicable. John Paul II always had a sense of theatre, and thus it’s only fitting that the miracle which sealed his beatification has a poetic arc. It involves the healing of a 49-year-old French nun named Marie Simon-Pierre Normand, who belongs to an order called the Institut des Petites Soeurs des Maternités Catholiques (“Institute of the Little Sisters of Catholic Motherhood”). The poetry is that Normand suffered from Parkinson’s disease, the same ailment that afflicted John Paul himself. In fact, Normand has said that when she was in the grip of the disease, she found it painful to watch John Paul on television, because she saw a glimpse of her own future – progressive loss of control over her body and a life confined to a wheelchair.

     According to accounts given by Normand, she had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of Parkinson’s disease in 2001, which meant that instead of gradually getting worse over many years, she deteriorated rapidly. When Benedict XVI announced the opening of a beatification cause for John Paul II on May 13, 2005, members of Normand’s community in both France and Africa began praying to the late pope for her recovery. By that time, Normand said, she intended to resign from her position in charge of a large staff at a maternity hospital, and she even despaired of her ability to make a trip to Lourdes to pray for a cure. As Normand told the story in a 2010 interview with the Italian state TV network RAI, on the night of June 2, 2005, she told her superior of her intention to resign, who suggested that she pray anew to John Paul II. Normand said the superior suggested that she write the pope’s name on a piece of paper, which by that stage she normally couldn’t do because of tremors in her hands. The superior insisted, suggesting that the left-handed Normand use her right hand, and she complied. That night, she said, she was able to sleep well, despite the fact that the pain of the disease usually kept her awake.

     The next morning, she said, she awoke feeling much greater movement in her body, and went directly to pray before the Blessed Sacrament. She said she prayed the “luminous mysteries” of the rosary (a new devotion introduced by John Paul II in 2002). Afterwards, she said, she went to the regular morning Mass with the other sisters, where she became convinced she was cured. Four days later she had a regularly scheduled appointment with her neurologist, who, she said, was amazed by the complete disappearance of her symptoms. In March 2010, media reports briefly implied that Normand had fallen ill again and that at least one physician had questioned the original diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, suggesting it may have been some other nervous disorder which can go into spontaneous remission. Those rumors were swiftly denied by the French bishops’ conference, however, and the Vatican obviously resolved any doubts to its satisfaction.

     One advantage of beatifications and canonizations which come quickly is that most of the people who loomed large in the candidate’s life are still around. That’s certainly true with John Paul II, including his miracolata, an Italian word literally meaning “miracled one,” and referring to the person who experienced the candidate’s miracle. In true 21st century fashion, interviews with Normand are even available on YouTube. Sr. Marie Simon-Pierre will be very much in evidence in Rome this week, among other things offering her testimony during a vigil ceremony Saturday evening in the Circus Maximus. She’ll be joined by two of John Paul II’s closest aides: Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland, his longtime private secretary; and Spanish layman Joaquin Navarro-Valls, John Paul’s spokesperson.

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