{{The late Pope John Paul II will be made a saint, the Vatican has said, announcing that Pope Francis had approved a second miracle attributed to the Polish pontiff, who led the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005.}}<\/p>\n
The Vatican said on Friday that Pope John XXIII, who reigned from 1958 to 1963 and called the Second Vatican Council – which enacted sweeping reforms to modernise the Church – would also be made a saint.<\/p>\n
No dates for the canonisation ceremonies were immediately given but the Vatican said they were expected by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
John Paul had already been credited with asking God to cure French nun Marie Simon-Pierre Normand of Parkinson’s disease, which helped lead to his beatification in 2011, when he was declared a “blessed” of the Church.<\/p>\n
Two confirmed miracles are usually required under Vatican rules for the declaration of a saint.<\/p>\n
The second miracle attributed to John Paul’s intercession is the inexplicable curing of a woman from Costa Rica who prayed to him for help with her medical condition on the day of his beatification.<\/p>\n
Details of that miracle were due to be announced in Costa Rica on Friday.<\/p>\n
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