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New Miracle Brings Pope John Paul II Steps Away from Sainthood Posted: 19 Jun 2013 10:16 AM PDT The Vatican has reportedly "approved" a second miracle that can be attributed to the memory of Pope John Paul II, opening the door for him to become a full saint faster than anyone in recent history. The Vatican won't reveal the details of the miracle just yet, but it allegedly concerns the "extraordinary healing" of a woman in Costa Rica, who recovered from a brain injury after praying to the deceased pope. A similar healing miracle was attributed to John Paul in 2011, giving him the two miracles required to reach full sainthood.

Floods close Lourdes Catholic pilgrimage site in France Posted: 19 Jun 2013 06:30 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Heavy flooding in southwestern France killed a woman and forced the closure of the Roman Catholic pilgrimage site at Lourdes on Wednesday, less than a year after flash floods caused millions of euros of damage to the shrine. Video footage showed frothy water a meter (3 feet) deep swirling around the Lourdes grotto, a hillside site where the Virgin Mary was said to have appeared to a peasant girl in 1858 and Catholicism's most-visited miracle shrine. ...

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