Pope meets with woman whose cure put missionary on path to sainthood

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Pope meets with woman whose cure put missionary on path to sainthood
May 16, 2005, 9:42 AM EDT


VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI met with an American woman Monday whose cure from multiple organ failure set Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century missionary who worked with leper patients in Hawaii, on the road to sainthood.

The 24-year-old woman, who has kept her identity secret, presented the pope with bone relics of the Franciscan nun from Syracuse, New York, to whom she prayed during her illness as a teenager.

"She still wants to keep this special time for Marianne," said Sister Mary Lawrence Hanley, of the young woman's refusal to go public with her story. Hanley is biographer of Mother Marianne, who was beatified in a solemn ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday.

Beatification is the last formal step before possible sainthood. Church law requires approval by the Vatican of a miracle -- a medically unexplainable cure from illness obtained through prayer to the sainthood candidate.

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1. New Pope’s books selling like hot cakes

JOSEPH Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI last month, has another new title: best selling author, said his US publisher.

“It's just amazing about the interest in the Pope's writings,” said Mark Brumley, president of Ignatius Press, which has the rights to Benedict's writings.

“We're reprinted over 300,000 copies of his books and we've sold them out in the first couple of days we had on hand,” he said. “Almost all the 300,000 copies we reprinted were spoken for.”

The non-profit San Francisco-based publisher started printing Ratzinger's works a quarter century ago in an effort to spread the works of leading European theologians.

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