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✣ Pope recognises second Newman miracle
What happened?
Blessed John Henry Newman will soon be canonised, after Pope Francis officially recognised a second miracle. Medical and theological experts had already given their approval. A pregnant woman in Chicago was suffering life-threatening complications. She was healed through Newman’s intercession.
The convert, priest and theologian, who will be the first non-martyr Briton to be canonised since before the Reformation, was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010.
