Wheelchair-boy 'miraculously walks again' at memorial visit to tomb of Pope John Paul II

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 11:25 PM on 02nd April 2009

Tin mới nhất: Em bé 9 tuổi người Ba Lan, bị tàn tật vì binh bướu trong trái thận. Em phải ngồi xe lăn nhưng đã được chữa lành tại chỗ khi em đến viếng thăm ngôi mộ của Đức Cố GH Gioan Phaolo II đêm hôm qua, ngày 2/4/09. Đức Hồng Y Stanislaw Dziwisz đã nói như vậy.

A child crippled by a kidney tumour was able to walk again after praying at the tomb of Pope John Paul II on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the late pontiff's death, it was claimed last night.

The nine-year-old Polish boy was brought to St Peter's Basilica on a pilgrimage to the grave of the Polish pope who died on April 2 2005.

Last night Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the former private secretary of Pope John Paul, said that after praying at the tomb in the crypt of the Rome basilica he 'suddenly' started walking again.

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'He was brought in a wheelchair because he wasn't able to walk,' the cardinal said. As soon as the boy emerged from the basilica, he told his parents: ''I want to walk.' He got up and started walking, healthy,' the prelate said.

He said the boy is from Gdansk, the Polish seaport known as the birthplace of the Solidarity movement which helped bring down decades of Communist rule in John Paul's homeland in the late 1980s.