The identity of the French nun whose cure from Parkinson’s disease may be the miracle the Vatican needs to beatify Pope John Paul II is one of the Catholic Church’s closely guarded secrets.

THE Vatican may have found the “miracle” it needs to put the late Pope John Paul II one step closer to sainthood — the medically-inexplicable healing of a French nun with the same Parkinson’s disease that afflicted the pope himself.

The process to beatify Pope John Paul II opens officially today with a solemn ceremony in which all the clerics involved will take an oath of secrecy – and promise not to be corrupted by taking any money or gifts that might sway their decisions.

HUNDREDS of letters and emails testifying to the late Pope John Paul II’s saintliness have arrived in Rome in recent weeks in support of his beatification cause.

Hundreds of letters and e-mails testifying to the late Pope John Paul II’s saintliness have arrived in Rome in recent weeks in support of his beatification cause.