The editor of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, said he was cured of a serious case of diphtheria in 1954 when he was two years old. Giovanni Maria Vian reports that on the eve of the canonization of Pope St. Pius X, a Spanish priest said Mass in his intention “on the pope’s tomb” in St. Peter’s Basilica, after which Vian was cured. This information comes from an interview Vian gave with Il Consulente Re, an online Italian Catholic magazine.
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