TRES RIOS, Costa Rica (AP) - on a warm spring day was Floribeth Mora in her bed, waiting to die brain aneurysm, her eyes on a picture of Pope Johannes Paul fell from a seemingly useless II in a newspaper.
"Stand up", reminds himself Mora saying the image of the Pope to her. "Don't be afraid."
Mora, the doctors and the Catholic Church say that her aneurysm the day in a miracle disappeared, which paved the way for the late Pope a Saint in a ceremony at the Vatican to specify where Mora to be a guest of honor is on April 27.
For Mora, was only the beginning of its metamorphosis from a woman the Church certified miracle sick and desperate in a revered symbol of faith for thousands of Costa Ricans and Catholics around the world.
Mora, 50, has a stream of local and international visitors in their modest home in a middle class neighborhood outside the capital city of Costa Rica was greeting and invitations accepted more than four mass per day. The believers you so many letters have to deliver, current Pope Pope Francis for them an extra suitcase to buy given.
Mora has her law degree late in life and a large part of their work for their family's security business devote full time to her role as a symbol of faith for many people in Costa Rica is exposed.
"With all this lot I grateful that my own business because I had a boss, she already me would have fired for so much work, missing" she joked.
She says, she ignored skeptics who doubt that she was really cured.
"Everybody thinks what can they want," she said during a visit home to The Associated Press. "What I know is that I'm healthy."
Mora was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm and sent home to rest and take pain reliever in April 2011 after doctors said that the problem was not ready. Mora, who, that she simply returned home thought to death, saw to expect the image of John Paul on May 1st day of the beatification of John Paul six years after his death.
Then she it with her says talked.
They surprised her family by running around, and after the doctors you healed explains message spread rapidly after the local church, and thence to the Vatican.
Today, says Mora, talking about their experiences, their vocation has become.
"I so much to do, that I will me mainly dedicate the world tells the story of God's size and what it has done for me," she said.
She says that people sometimes wonder whether the experience somehow presented, or the result of a mental illness.
"I have no reason to doubt what I am. I'm healthy and that's the most important thing,"Mora, the daughter of a shoemaker and a seamstress, said born in a difficult neighborhood South of San Jose.
Grandchildren, through the narrow corridors of the House, which she shares with her husband, a retired police officer. Pictures of John Paul, the infant Jesus and Maria look down from the walls from virtually every room.
The garden smells of oregano and Rosemary grows to cooking and a few taps, is divided into three rabbits and some ducks. Her 15-year-old son, the youngest of the three, says her occasionally for the participation of so many dimensions.
"I must be," she said.
Mora is often overwhelmed by the petitions to the prayer asking the believers take their Franz.
"I have to buy a special case for these letters, because some of these great packages," she said. Mora said she is full of excitement for the fulfillment of the Pope, whom she admired for his humility and the changes he made in the Church.
She looks tired, she says she feels great, and none of the symptoms of that she felt she brought to the brink of death, who returned three years ago. She has no doubt that she owes her life, John Paul.
"It is important that they call him a Saint, but for me he's already a Saint," she said. "I never thought that I would be a part of all this."
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Michael Weissenstein in Mexico City this contributed to report.
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