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So we ask the saints to pray for us. i would say to my mom, ma, say a prayer for me today. and irng she's in the presence of got displays with me. in a send, we but now officially recognize the power of saints. beatification traditionally has meant that the vocation is more localized to a particular dioceses, so in this case the dioceses of krakow. but those distinctions with the kind of communication media we have now and so on are basically broken down. so in a sense, to be beatified, to be canonized are pretty much the same thing except for one miracle in between. >> and i think a great man...

I don't think it wag anything like that. i think it was a mutual admiration that involved sort of the thought process and so the incident luktal says -- spirit matters that both men shared, i think. >> if you're joining us, we are watching live from st. peter's square the beatification mass honoring, proclaiming john paul ii as a blessed servant of god. it was six years ago that john paul passed away and his successor benedict xvi took the altar and in that time, the math to sainthood has been opened ache quickly as the vatican can do it. he is not the most rapidly beatified figure. you can au...

The last couple of days and that's the speed with which this has taken place. benedict xvi said i wanted the beatification to move forward with reasonable haste. it came quickly because this was what was pleasing to the board, john paul the ii is blessed. once he said that, john paul broke out into a cheer. probably for this mass of beatification. >> as we watch this, i'm reminded of the day six years ago when we first saw pope benedict xvi. he said then some very disturbing things about pope john paul. he said i seem to feel his strong hand clasping mine, i seem to see his smiling eyes and he...

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If you are just watching us, we have been watching the ceremony of john paul ii being beatified. we saw the unveiling of his portrait, a portrait of john paul ii. i am struck, they chose a portrait from 1995, it shows him in his vigor in the years of his strength before so much of his health was taken from him by parkins parkinson's before age robbed him of much of his physical vigor. his remains were seen there where they will lie so that the million or so people that gathered in rome and more people who may want to will approach and pray with the late john paul ii.