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John Paul II is not yet a saint, but are already ready relics

Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyla , proceed rapidly towards the canonization: it will be beatified next May 1. Although the canonization process has been accelerated Wojtyla is not yet a saint, but the relics are ready already ...

In particular, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz , friend and secretary of the late Pope and now archbishop of Krakow, he had prepared a vial of blood Wojtyla, so it is ready for display immediately after the beatification .

The blood was taken a few days before the death of Wojtyla, in order to perform analysis of the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, and then come into the hands of Dziwisz.

The vial will be embedded in the altar of a church in Krakow, in a glass case, as reported by Piotr Sionko, spokesman for the "John Paul II Center." Sionko said:

This is a proposal of the Cardinal, is of the opinion that it is the most precious relic of Pope John Paul II and that it should be the focal point of the church.

The church hosting the relic will be the center for the worship of memory and thought of Wojtyla and includes a museum, an institution with an adjoining library, a chapel and oratory and a conference center.

The idea of \u200b\u200bobtaining the relics of John Paul II, kept in Poland, is not new: already not long after his death, Polish officials had proposed removing the heart from the corpse buried in Rome and to bring it to Krakow and then it was not going to port to the Vatican's opposition.

exposure of the blood of Wojtyla, and the creation of a center of pilgrimage dedicated to the Polish Pope in his homeland, has not met with unanimous approval. Krzysztof Madel, a Polish Jesuit who opposed the exhibition of the relic, has argued:

The tradition comes from the relics of the medieval practice of teaching the Bible through images and symbols, but in the modern rational world the message should lead rather through the teaching of someone's life.

I believe that we can not but agree with Madel, although the flourishing turnover around saints like Padre Pio ( with attached golden tomb ) does not bode good.

Source: John Paul II's blood to be relic in Polish church " Associated Press, January 17, 2011. Many thanks to Antonio Lombatti for reporting.