Women recount the stories of healing through intercession of popes

April 25, 2014 - ‎Ahead of the canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II on Sunday, people are recounting stories how they have been healed through the intercession of the two Blesseds. People said Floribeth Mora Diaz was crazy to think Blessed John Paul II interceded with God to heal her brain aneurysm, but if so, "then it is a blessed craziness, because I'm healthy," she told reporters at the Vatican. The 50-year-old Costa Rican woman spoke at a news conference on Thursday, just three days before the sainthood ceremony. Pope Francis accepted her healing as the miracle needed for the canonization of the Polish pope. At the same news conference, Daughter of Charity Sister Adele Labianca gave her eyewitness account of the healing of Sister Caterina Capitani, the nun whose healing in 1966 was accepted as the miracle needed for the beatification of Blessed John XXIII. Pope Francis waived the requirement of another miracle for his canonization. Even though both women have told their stories hundreds of times, they were emotional before an international gathering of reporters at the Vatican. Sister Labianca said she had to read her testimony from a prepared text because she was certain she would forget something. Mora Diaz simply let her voice tremble. (Source: CNS)