On Pilgrimage

A Miracle by Pope John Paul I?

The diocesan process for John Paul I has come to a close, and the documentation on the miracle attributed to him has also evidently been sent to Rome. Now more information has come out about the miracle and the man who was healed by the Pope.

Giuseppe Denora was a bank clerk from Altamura Italy. He and his wife had attended Pope John Paul I’s Angelus talk in Rome on September 3, 1978. Denora kept a couple of newspaper clippings of the Pope, one of which he had framed and hung on his bedroom wall. Then, fourteen years later, at the age of 44, with 4 young children, the youngest just four years old, he fell seriously ill. He tells what happened then:

“At the beginning of 1992. I went to the doctor here in Altamura. He did a gastroscopy on me. He said, ‘Here, unfortunately, things are looking bad, very bad, go and see this oncologist at Bari hospital’. The oncologist made me do another gastroscopy. Same result: ‘Non-Hodgkin’s gastric lymphoma’. I came home and started chemotherapy. . . In two months I was reduced to a shadow. I wasn’t eating, I could hardly get out of bed. I lay there, with the photo of this man in front of me. I’d look at him, I let him in on my worries and we’d talk in silence, in the way that I said: ‘Look at the state I’m in, I can’t work any more … What can I do? And Cecilia’s still small… the children are in need’. ‘I’m here, but you’re up there,’ I’d tell him other times, ‘you know them well, those upstairs, those that are higher up than you. You ask those who are higher up than you what I’m to do, if they’ll help me. If they can help me. You tell them’.

On the night of 27 March I felt I was dying from the pain. A furnace in my stomach, I felt it burning so much. And I was burning inside with the pain of having to leave my family. I looked at him and said again: ‘If I have to die now who’s going to think about feeding these children …’. The room that night was lit up as always by the lampposts in the street … I saw it at the foot of the bed: a dark shadow that came forward and passed alongside me rapidly with a hand stretched out, a hand, an instant, and in that exact instant it was as if that fire I had inside was dowsed with water. I fell asleep and in the morning I woke rested, reborn. As I woke up I heard my wife calling me shaking me a bit, ‘Peppe, Peppe have you got a temperature?’ I got up and went to have breakfast, the next day I went back to work. Nothing, from that moment on nothing more, I immediately felt just as I am now: in full health.” [Interviewer]: And you immediately re-did the clinical examinations? “Yes, seeing the results, the doctors wrote: ‘Complete Remission’”.

You can read the whole article here.

Friday, December 12th, 2008, by Lori and is filed under "Pope John Paul I ". You can leave a response here, or send a Trackback from your own site.