Wow, the shit you have to do to get your sainthood!!! Like going your entire life with out touching yourself, or someone else isn't a miracle in it's self. If he would have been smart, he would have changed the definition of what a miracle is. Lowering the quota was a nice start, but changing miracle to being something a little more attainable would have been even better. Like going a whole day without asking someone to pull your finger, miracle!! Saint hood granted, next!!
Even before his death it was assumed by many that Pope John Paul II was on the fast track top sainthood. But little thought had been given to what exactly JP's requisite miracle was. Now a fellow Pole is leading the hunt to figure out what exactly JP did that was a "miracle."
According to Monsignor Slawomir Oder, there is a suspiciously unnamed nun who like the pope himself, suffered from Parkinson's disease.
Upon the Pope's death, her superior-general asked the other nuns in their community to pray for JP to heal their sister.
"Exactly two months after the death of the pope, from one minute to another, the nun didn't show the symptoms of the illness anymore," Oder told The Associated Press in Rome. She was "perfectly able to do her work without any symptom of what she had before."
According to the doctrine of the church, to achieve sainthood an investigation has to prove a miracle performed from beyond the grave.
The fact is, Pope John Paul took the most important step towards his own aggrandizement in 1983 when he streamlined the process for achieving sainthood.
His ascension has been given an additional boost by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, who waived the five-year waiting period for JP's nomination for sainthood.
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