Cures through the intercession of John Paul II

Cures through the intercession of John Paul II

Healing of Floribeth Mora

This is the healing chosen for the canonization of John Paul II, on April 27, 2014. The protagonist is a Costa Rican woman who lives in the town of Tres Ríos de Cartago. On June 18, 2013, the Theological Commission of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved this cure, as the doctors who recognized that, in an inexplicable way, Flory -as her relatives call her- had already done in April. and friends–overcame a brain aneurysm when the doctors had given up hope.

Flory herself recounts her testimony as follows: It all started on April 8, 2011 when she woke up. He gave me such a bad headache that I thought my head would burst. I asked my husband to take me to the hospital because he felt pretty bad. When I arrived I was very ill from vomiting and headache, this woman recounts in a testimony written by herself a year ago, now collected by “La Razón”, and confirmed to that Spanish newspaper by one of the participants in the miracle. .

On that first visit to the doctor, he was diagnosed with stress and high blood pressure. Verifying over the following days that his state of health had not improved, she decided to go to a hospital in San José, the capital of Costa Rica.

After several tests they told me that I had a small blood leak in my brain, then they did a CAT scan and discovered that it was a brain aneurysm on the right side.

The doctors gave up

She was immediately transferred to another center, while the doctors were surprised by her endurance. After several attempts to close the drip of blood that she suffered in her brain, the medical team that was treating her had to give up when the dilation was found in a place that was difficult to access.

From this moment on, the situation worsened greatly. After spending a few days under observation, the limitations of the Costa Rican health system prevented an operation from being carried out.

This closed my chances of surviving such a fatal diagnosis, recalls this mother of four children, grandmother of four grandchildren and wife of a former National Police officer.

Such was the seriousness of his situation that he returned home with a clear warning to his family: he only had one month to live. However, despite the desperation that at first thought about the outcome of the story generated, we were filled with a lot of faith, but I cannot deny the great fear I felt when I saw what was happening to me.

Blessed John Paul II

Not even a month has passed since that morning in which his life was cut short, when another unexpected turn took place. On May 1, 2011, in Saint Peter’s Square, more than a million people participate in the beatification of John Paul II.

Benedict XVI proclaimed the Polish Pope blessed, highlighting in the first person how he lived the sanctity of his predecessor in the see of Peter: For 23 years I was able to be close to him and venerate his person more and more. His spiritual depth and the richness of his insights sustained my service. His example of prayer has always impressed and edified me: he immerses himself in the encounter with God, even in the midst of the multiple occupations of his ministry. When it dawned in Costa Rica, John Paul II had already been beatified.

Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, in procession

Like every Sunday, Floribeth’s family went to Mass at the parish. With little strength, but again encouraged by her husband, they went to the center of the neighborhood because a procession was taking place.

At that moment a float with the image of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament was passing by and I felt a coldness in my body. I got out of the car and went over there.

Then the priest accompanying the procession recited a prayer: Oh, Lord! There is a healing.

The woman stopped and began to pray: We asked our Pope John Paul to help us to ask God to help me.

And at that precise moment, something began to change. Leave that park with the faith that I was the healed one, points out this mother of a family who since then has focused the eyes of her neighbors and friends. From now on, from all over the Catholic world.

Relics of the Pope in a sanctuary

A few days after that event, Floribeth, aware that she had received some relics of the Polish Pope at the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Ujarrs, decided to go to pray. Again, a miracle, apostille.

It was a reliquary containing blood samples of John Paul II, extracted one day before he died.

However, despite the effort made, when he arrived the exhibition had already finished. Still, Father Donald Solano made an exception.

He showed it to me and I played it. Six months later they did another test on my brain and they told me that the aneurysm had disappeared for the honor and glory of my God, emphasizes this woman, who has made it possible for John Paul II to be proclaimed a saint on April 27, 2014.

The neurosurgeon, without explanation

As published on Thursday, June 20, by the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación, neurosurgeon Alejandro Vargas Román, who treated Floribeth Mora during her illness, confirmed these days that he did not find a scientific explanation for the sudden disappearance of the aneurysm she suffered from when they analyzed subsequent tests. to that May 1, 2011.

In addition, Vargas revealed that Holy See officials consulted him about the details of the case during the diocesan phase of the canonization process, the first before the reports are sent to Rome and examined by the different commissions of the Congregation for the Cause of St. the Saints.

Medically, in theory, an aneurysm is never going to go away for people because it is a dilation. Scientifically, I have no explanation as to why it disappeared, comments the doctor, who experienced first-hand what happened at the Caldern Guardia hospital.

Healing of Marco Fidel Rojas

Marco Fidel Rojas was mayor of Huila. He is Colombian, suffered from Prkinson’s and was cured through the intercession of Blessed John Paul II

According to Marco Fidel himself, it all started on December 8, 2005 when he felt the first symptoms of the disease. After a series of tests it was determined that he had a cerebrovascular accident. Later they told him that as a result of the brain infarction he suffered from Parkinson’s.

Gradually the disease worsened. “At any moment I could collapse. Several times I fell in the street,” he indicated and recounted that even as a result of one of these collapses he was almost run over by a taxi.

Years passed until the night of December 27, 2010, when he remembered that on a trip to Rome he met the then Pope John Paul II at a Mass and that he spoke with him for a few seconds.

“I have a friend in the afterlife. And he had Prkinson. Why hadn’t he summoned before? Venerable father John Paul II: come and heal me, put your hands on my head”, he said that night in the midst of his pain.

That night he slept soundly and the next day he no longer had the symptoms of the disease.



“Yes, John Paul II performed the miracle of curing me,” said the Colombian who now does not hesitate to allocate his pension to spread devotion to the Polish Pope by buying and giving holy cards.

“My great promise with my healer, with the Blessed, is to spread devotion wherever I see that I can,” he told El Tiempo. According to the newspaper, he said it would be like being born again if John Paul II is proclaimed a saint thanks to his story.

According to the Colombian newspaper, Marco Fidel’s healing is certified by “the prestigious neurologist Antonio Schlesinger Piedrahita”, who in the certificate issued on September 26, 2011 states that “I currently find the patient in good health. He presents tremor at rest.” in hands. Rest of the neurological examination, normal”.



As is recalled, the miracle that allowed the beatification of Pope John Paul II was the healing of the French nun Marie Simon-Pierre, who also suffered from Prkinson’s, the disease that the late Pope suffered for years.

Marie Simon-Pierre, a sister born in 1962, belonging to the congregation of the Little Sisters of the Catholic Maternities, who currently works in the Sainte Flicit maternity hospital, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, has been cured of Parkinson’s through the intercession of John Paul II.
Marie-Simon-Pierre was diagnosed with the neurological disorders typical of that disease in June 2001, a disease that John Paul II also suffered from. Below you can read the testimony of Sister Marie Simon Pierre:

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