Floribeth Mora Diaz (born 19 June 1963) is a

Costa Rican Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...

lawyer who was reportedly the subject of a miracle when she was cured of

brain aneurysm An intracranial aneurysm, also known as a brain aneurysm, is a cerebrovascular disorder in which weakness in the wall of a cerebral artery or vein causes a localized dilation or ballooning of the blood vessel. Aneurysms in the posterior circul ...

. Her case was used to support the canonisation of Pope

John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

Life

Diaz was born in

San José San José or San Jose (Spanish for Saint Joseph) most often refers to: *San Jose, California, United States *San José, Costa Rica, the nation's capital San José or San Jose may also refer to: Places Argentina * San José, Buenos Aires ** San ...

in 1963 and she became a lawyer. She developed a cerebral aneurysm which was diagnosed in April 2011 as inoperable. She was given a month to live. She prayed asking for the intercession of Pope

. Pope John Paul II had died six years before but Diaz was his admirer. She woke on 1 May and watched the beatification of John Paul II on television. She was later woken by what she said was the voice of John Paul II telling her to get up. She became well and this was declared miraculous by the Catholic Church. Alejandro Vargas Román who was a Catholic neurosurgeon who knew of her case said that the cure was inexplicable. He had discussed this with priests at the Vatican. This healing was considered the second miracle due to the intercession of the late Pope John Paul II, after the cure of Sr. Marie Simon-Pierre of

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

. These miracles fulfilled the conditions necessary for canonization. Blessed John Paul II was thus canonized on April 27, 2014, by

Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...

. Diaz attended the ceremony.

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