MOVING TOW ARD SAINTHOOD 8 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2000 • PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC Way clear for John XXIII’s beatification VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope intervention of Pope John. needed before Pope John could neously. unity, the said. Jo h n Paul II, recognizing as The decree clears the way for be canonized. Archbishop Jose Saraiva “During his missions in Bul­ miraculous a healing of an Ital­ the beatification of Pope John, Sister Capitani was dying Martins, prefect of the Congre­ garia and Turkey’ as a Vatican ian nun, cleared the way for who served as pontiff from from complications following gation for Sainthood Causes, diplomat, the future pope's the beatification of Pope John 1958 to 1963 and convened stomach surgery in 1966 when told Pope John Paul it was fit­ “personal contact with so XXIII. the . she prayed to Pope John to ting to publish the decree in many brothers and sisters not Sister Caterina Capitani, a Although the Vatican has not help her. She said she saw the Pope John's case on the heels in full communion with the member of the Daughters of announced a date for the cere­ pope smiling and heard him of the Week of Prayer for Chris­ generated in Charity, attended the Jan. 27 mony, officials have said Sept. say, “Be calm, I am here.” tian Unity. him a categorical commitment Vatican session at which the 3 is the most likely. The nun, who is now based It was Pope John who, in to recovering the unity lost pope recognized her healing as Another miracle occurring in Naples, told Italian media 1960, created the Vatican's over the centuries,” Archbish­ a miracle attributed to the after the beatification would be that she was healed instanta­ office for promoting Christian op Saraiva Martins said. Pope John XXIII

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