Pope John Paul II’s private secretary claims his late boss “miraculously” cured an American Jewish millionaire’s brain tumor. The Jewish man, who remains unnamed, told a friend that he had been diagnosed with an incurable tumor and had but three wishes left — to see the pope, to go to Jerusalem and to return home to die, according to the Telegraph, a British newspaper.
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