The Holy Father has certainly been busy this month, giving us more new saints! February 6. the Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved the second miracle needed for the canonization of BLESSED POPE PAUL VI, (See BLOG 5/15/2014) allowing his canonization to take place, possibly later this year.
The next step is for Pope Francis to also give his approval, with an official decree from the Vatican
The miracle attributed to the cause of Paul VI is the healing of an unborn child in the fifth month of pregnancy. The case was brought forward in 2014 for study.
The mother, originally from the province of Verona , Italy
A few days after the beatification of Paul VI on Oct. 19, 2014, she went to pray to him at the Shrine of Holy Mary of Grace in the town of Brescia
The healing was first ruled as medically inexplicable by the medical council of the congregation last year, while the congregation's consulting theologians agreed that the healing occurred through the late pope's intercession.
The miracle for Paul VI's canonization echoes that of his beatification. That first miracle took place in the 1990s in California
The child was born without problems and is now a healthy adolescent. He is considered to be completely healed.
Pope Paul VI was born Giovanni Montini in 1897 in the town of Concesio in the Lombardy region of Italy
As pope, he oversaw much of the Second Vatican Council, which had been opened by Pope St. John XXIII. He also promulgated a new Roman Missal in 1969.
Pope Paul VI published the encyclical Humanae Vitae in 1968, which reaffirmed the Church’s teaching against contraception and reaffirmed the merits of priestly celibacy.