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Smiling portrait of Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani) in white papal dress, 1978
healingBuenos Aires, Argentina

Candela Giarda: Catastrophic Childhood Encephalopathy Resolved — John Paul I's Miracle

The doctors had run out of options for eleven-year-old Candela — runaway seizures, then septic shock — when, in a church beside the Buenos Aires hospital, a priest proposed to her mother that they pray to John Paul I. The next day her condition began to turn; she went home in September fully recovered, and today she studies veterinary medicine on no medication at all.

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