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Formal 1959 portrait of Pope John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) wearing an embroidered stole
healingNaples, Italy

Sister Caterina Capitani: Gastric Fistula Healed After John XXIII Relic

A young nun in Naples was dying after surgeons removed most of her stomach, fluid leaking through a breach in her abdominal wall, when a relic said to be a piece of Pope John XXIII's bed sheet was laid on the wound. She said she felt a hand there and heard her name called; the pain stopped, and within hours the fistula had closed.

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