Pope Paul
VI to be Beatified October 19th
Pope
Francis Signs Decree, Approves Miracle
VATICAN CITY, May 11, 2014 (Zenit.org) - The Vatican
has announced that Pope Francis signed a decree Friday confirming
that a miracle, attributed to the intercession of the late Pope Paul VI, is
authentic and that the former pope will be beatified at the Vatican on October
19th.
Giovanni Battista Montini was born on 26th
September 1897 in Concesio, Italy, and died on 6 August 1978 in Castel
Gandolfo, the Vatican stated.
Theologians and doctors attested that the
healing of a child from California, who was expected to be born with severe
brain damage, cannot be explained on medical grounds. The child
was born in the 1990s and is now a healthy teenager. .
The Congregation for the Causes of Saints last
week unanimously agreed that the healing was a miracle. Pope Francis issued a
decree on Friday confirming its authenticity during a private
audience with the prefect of the Congregation, Cardinal Angelo Amato.
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