Friday, April 29, 2011

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BEATIFICATION OF JOHN PAUL II

Thousands of people attend on Sunday in St. Peter's Square for the beatification of John Paul II, who will be beatified by Pope Benedict XVI just six years after death.

The beatification of the Polish pope, who died on April 2, 2005 at age 84 after a long illness that the world continued to live, is the step before canonization takes place in record time less than five years usually required to start the process.

The new Blessed, including potatoes longer have occupied the throne of Peter, became the face of the Church in nearly 27 years as pontiff.

His beatification will work day, a happy coincidence that during his youth as Karol Jozef Wojtyla was a metalworker, as well as a champion of Polish independent trade union Solidarity, which led the movement in the 80's, contributing the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.

Some 300,000 people, including Polish, English, French arrive in trains, aircraft and special buses to Rome to attend the ceremony, which will be chaired by one of his closest aides, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope.

Many celebrities, including President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, the French Prime Minister François Fillon, the Dominican first lady, Margarita Fernandez will attend the beatification will be broadcast live on television in many countries .

On Monday, April 30, a mass of preparation will be held in the Circus Maximus in the center of Rome, while on 2 May, will be officiated a Mass of thanksgiving in St. Peter's Square, presided over by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State.

The final burial of the remains of John Paul II will be held successively at the Basilica of San Pedro, in the chapel of San Sebastian, next to the chapel where the famous statue of Michelangelo's Pieta in the right wing of the temple, and will be held privately.

The beatification of one of the most popular pontiffs in recent history, who traveled all over the world and used all types of media to carry their message to the world, making his papacy in one of the emblems of the Church in the modern era.

The pontiff youth sports, accessible, mountain climbing, skiing and joked, was adamant to the end on issues like birth control, abortion and divorce.

not put in discussion the celibacy of priests and the role of women in the Church, but it was the first Pope to visit a mosque and a synagogue, promoted dialogue between religions and no voice trembled to cry out against the war, criticism of unbridled capitalism and ask hundreds of times for forgiveness for sins committed by Catholics over its long history.

The speed with which the new Blessed short of the glory of the altars is explained by the "impressive reputation for holiness of John Paul II who enjoyed during his life, his death and after his death," Recently the Vatican said.

The commission of cardinals and bishops of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in January approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of John Paul II, for which even listened to his detractors.

This was the Cure "immediate and inexplicable", in June 2005, the French nun Marie Simon-Pierre, who suffered Parkinson's disease, the same disease that struck the head of the Catholic Church.

The nun, 50, a nurse, will attend the ceremonies.

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