As the Church looks for a second miracle attributed John Paul II, one may be forth-coming from Spain.
The first miracle, allowing for John Paul’s beatification on May 1, was the cure of a French nun with Parkinson’s Disease, the disease John Paul died from. A second miracle is required in order that he is canonised a saint.
The story of a possible second miracle surrounds the cure of a Spanish man, Carlos Vazquez who was suffering from Crohn’s disease.
Contact with John Paul II’s white papal Zucchetto is said to have miraculously cured him in 2006, author Randall Meissen relates in Living Miracles: The Spiritual Sons of John Paul the Great.
Carlos Vazquez experienced constant pain and severe weight loss during his struggle with Crohn’s disease, a supposedly incurable autoimmune disorder causing inflammation of the digestive tract. By September of 2006, after dropping to eighty-four pounds, his situation was life threatening. Nonetheless, Vazquez was repeatedly turned away by Spain’s public health system due to bureaucratic technicalities.
A friend of Carlos Vazquez’s family lent him a relic of John Paul II, one of the pope’s white papal skull caps, and suggested he pray to the pope for a miracle. The cap, properly called a zucchetto, was placed in the Vazquez living room; thereafter, Vazquez and his wife recited each day a prayer for John Paul II’s intercession.
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