Is this fiery image Pope John Paul II? - 'PEOPLE MAKING MIRACLE'

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Miracle? ... the image that appeared in the bonfire (left) and Pope John Paul II in 2001 (right).

Is this fiery image Pope John Paul II?

By staff writers

October 16, 2007 12:46pm


FORGET the face of Jesus in fish fingers or Mother Teresa in a bun, believers say they have snapped the image of the late Pope John Paul II in a bonfire.

The fiery figure being hailed as Pope John Paul II making an appearance beyond the grave was spotted during a ceremony in Poland to mark the second anniversary of his death.

Details appeared on the Vatican News Service, a Rome religious TV station.

Station director Jarek Cielecki, a Polish priest and close friend of John Paul II, went to Poland after hearing about the photographs, London's Daily Mail newspaper reported.

Father Cielecki said he was convinced the picture showed the former pontiff.

"You can see the image of a person in the flames and I think it is the servant of God, Pope John Paul II," he said.

The pictures were being broadcast continuously on Italian TV and also posted on religious websites, some of which crashed as thousands logged on to see for themselves the eerie figure formed by the flames.

The bonfire was lit during a service at Beskid Zywiecki, close to John Paul's birthplace at Katowice, southern Poland, on April 2 - the second anniversary of his death.

Hundreds had attended the ceremony.

Gregorz Lukasik, the Polish man who took the photographs, said: "It was only afterwards when I got home and looked at the pictures that I realised I had something.

"I showed them to my brother and sister and they, like me, were convinced the flames had formed the image of Pope John Paul II.

"I was so happy with the picture that I showed it to our local bishop who said that Pope John Paul had made many pilgrimages during his life and he was still making them in death."
 
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