Yahoo – AFP,
María Isabel Sanchez, 17 April 2014
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Floribeth
Mora poses in a little chapel with the image of late pope John Paul II
at her
home during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 in Dulce Nombre
de Cartago,
Cartago, Costa Rica (AFP Photo/Ezequiel Becerra)
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Floribeth
Mora poses in a little chapel with the image of late pope John Paul II at her
home during an interview with AFP on March 26, 2014 in Dulce Nombre de Cartago,
Cartago, Costa Rica
Dulce
Nombre (Costa Rica) (AFP) - Call her the miracle lady on the hill -- one with a
brain aneurysm whose healing was declared a miracle, clearing the way for the
late John Paul II to become a saint.
Floribeth
Mora, a 50-year-old Costa Rican, has now become a sort of religious icon
herself.
Sick people
flock every day to her home, a small dwelling full of crucifixes. She tells
them to have faith.
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Jazmin
Torres (L) cries as she talks about her sick mother with Floribeth Mora (C)
whose healing from a brain aneurysm was declared a miracle, clearing the way
for the late John Paul II to become a saint, March 26, 2014 in Cartago, Costa
Rica (AFP Photo/Ezequiel Becerra)
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Three years ago, doctors told Mora she had an untreatable brain aneurysm and sent her home to wait for death.
But she
survived, leaving doctors perplexed. On July 5 last year, Pope Francis called
Mora's case a miracle, making it possible for John Paul II to be canonized on
April 27.
Mora lives
in a small house on a hill in Dulce Nombre de Cartago, 20 kilometers (12 miles)
east of Costa Rica's capital San Jose.
The doorway
features a large portrait of the late Polish pope, candles and flowers, along
with an image of the Virgin Mary and copies of medical documents certifying her
health turn-around.
Mora has a
magazine with Karol Wojtyla on the cover and rarely lets go of it.
To one man
whose wife is dying, she says, "Pray a lot to John Paul II, as I
did."
Dressed in
a light blue blouse that sets off her fair skin and brown hair, Mora welcomed a
team from AFP amid the bustle of preparing for her trip to Rome, receiving sick
people and running two small family businesses.
'Don't be
afraid'
Mora
remembers the day in April 2011 when she got her bad news. A neurosurgeon said
she had an aneurysm on the right side of her brain.
"The
left side of my body became paralyzed. I could not move my hands, could not
hold a spoon or a glass. I would drop everything," she said.
After a
series of tests, doctors told her that her case was hopeless, and sent her home
to await her demise.
"Her
life was fading away, but she always prayed to the pope," said Father
Sergio, her spiritual adviser.
Lying in
bed on May 1, 2011, Mora watched John Paul II's beatification.
"At
eight o'clock the next morning, I heard a voice in my room that said, 'Get up.
Don't be afraid,'" she recounted.
She said
that from the magazine with the picture of the late pontiff, she saw hands
appear, urging her to get out of bed.
"The
Lord took away my fear and agony, and gave me the peace and certainty that I
was healthy," Mora said.
Gradually,
she recovered and in November of that year, an MRI "confirmed what I had
been saying -- that I was healthy. It was the work of God," she said, her
voiced filled with emotion.
And what
does the neurosurgeon Alejandro Vargas have to say?
"If I
cannot explain it from a medical standpoint, something non-medical
happened," he said. "I can believe it was a miracle."
The
'crazy lady'
Mora
relayed her story in February 2012 on the late pope's web page.
"I
wanted the world to realize the grandeur of God. But I never imagined the
magnitude that this was going to take on," she said.
Three
months later, the Vatican contacted her, and Mora traveled to Rome. Tests
confirmed she was totally healthy.
Her
devotion to John Paul II began when he visited Costa Rica in 1983.
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Floribeth
Mora looks at an image of late
pope John Paul II during an interview
with AFP
on March 26, 2014 at her
residence in Dulce Nombre de Cartago,
Cartago, Costa
Rica (AFP Photo/Ezequiel
Becerra)
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John Paul
II, who died in April 2005, was beatified after a miracle was proclaimed
involving a French nun. But a second miracle was needed for him to be canonized,
or made a saint.
It is a
miracle not everyone believes in, even in this country where the Catholic faith
is classified as "official," which is rare in Latin America.
"In
the supermarket, in the street, people say, 'There goes that crazy lady!' But
the crazy lady is healthy because God cured me. God bless my madness because I
can share with my family," says Mora, who is married and has four children
and six grandchildren.
Born in a
poor neighborhood of San Jose, she says she is the same person she always was.
"She
has not changed, although many people come to see her," says a neighbor,
Flor Varela.
In Mora's
house, a distraught man is on the verge of tears.
"My
wife no longer speaks. We do not know if she sees us, if she hears us. I come
with faith for you to take a petition to the pope," said Jose Torres, a
small-scale farmer.
"Nothing
is impossible for God," answers Mora. She is seated on a sofa in the
living room. A trunk there is full of letters for her to take to Rome.
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