Santo Subito - Saint At Once <br/><br/>
During Pope John Paul’s funeral in 2005, crowded in St Peter’s Square, pilgrims held up placards saying ‘Santo Subito’, calling for the Polish Pope to be declared a saint immediately.  During the mass that marked the second anniversary of the pontiff’s death, the first step toward the process for the sainthood of Pope John Paul II has formally ended as well.  This process was previously authorized and accelerated by Pope Benedict XVI, overriding the usual five-year waiting period.  A weighty dossier of ‘evidence’ of John Paul’s holiness, which include all his writings and over 100 witnesses’ testimony, will now be handed over to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints.<br/><br/>
Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the vicar for the Rome diocese, reflected during the mass at the basilica of St. John Lateran “With his affirmation in God’s love and his complete fulfillment to God, the late Pope has discovered the meaning of life and became one with Christ.  Although he has shown signs of restlessness during his final months, it came from the fact that he was unable to perform his job like he used to be, and not his suffering of the Parkinson’s disease.”<br/><br/>
Sr. Marie-Simon-Pierre is a French nun and a member of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of Catholic Motherhood who has received a miraculous cure.  Diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2001, she said that watching Pope John Paul II deteriorates from the effects of Parkinson’s disease “I saw myself in the years to come.”  When Pope John Paul II died on April 2, 2005; Sr. Marie-Simon-Pierre’s condition began to worsen.  All members of the Little Sisters of Catholic Motherhood in France and in Senegal began praying to Pope John Paul II to intervene with God to heal her.  When Sr. Marie-Simon-Pierre woke up on June 3, she knew she was able to write, to walk and to function normally.