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In a decree Friday, the Pope confirmed that a French nun Sister Marie Simon-Pierre's recovery from Parkinson's disease was indeed miraculous, thanks to the intercession of John Paul.
When she went public with her story, the nun said she had been suffering the degenerative disease for four years when she prayed to John Paul II in June of 2005.
John Paul, who also suffered Parkinson's, was 84 years old when he died two months earlier.
All the symptoms disappeared overnight, Sister Marie Simon-Pierre told reporters in 2007, explaining that she never took another treatment again.
"My life has completely changed -- it was like a second birth for me," she said.
The conclusion her cure had no other scientific explanation -- approved by a Vatican-appointed panel of doctors, theologians, cardinals and bishops this week -- paves the way for Pope John Paul II to be beatified in the spring.
Beatification is the third of four steps on the path to sainthood. Once complete, he will be anointed with the title "Blessed," and his tomb will be moved from the crypt at St. Peter's Basilica, reportedly to the nave in the Chapel of St. Sebastian.
In a decree Friday, the Pope confirmed that a French nun Sister Marie Simon-Pierre's recovery from Parkinson's disease was indeed miraculous, thanks to the intercession of John Paul.
When she went public with her story, the nun said she had been suffering the degenerative disease for four years when she prayed to John Paul II in June of 2005.
John Paul, who also suffered Parkinson's, was 84 years old when he died two months earlier.
All the symptoms disappeared overnight, Sister Marie Simon-Pierre told reporters in 2007, explaining that she never took another treatment again.
"My life has completely changed -- it was like a second birth for me," she said.
The conclusion her cure had no other scientific explanation -- approved by a Vatican-appointed panel of doctors, theologians, cardinals and bishops this week -- paves the way for Pope John Paul II to be beatified in the spring.
Beatification is the third of four steps on the path to sainthood. Once complete, he will be anointed with the title "Blessed," and his tomb will be moved from the crypt at St. Peter's Basilica, reportedly to the nave in the Chapel of St. Sebastian.