Pope's Brazil tour: Reporter's diary: The 'miracle pill'

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Latin is yummy – And good for you! :bounce:

The highlight of the Pope’s visit to Sao Paolo will be the canonisation ceremony of Brazil’s first native-born saint.

His name was Brother Antonio Galvao and he lived two centuries ago in a rather modest monastery still standing among the skyscrapers in sprawling modern Sao Paolo, where he used to dispense a cure-all “pill” to people who sought his aid to relieve such painful illnesses as kidney stones.

These “pills” were made of tiny scraps of paper with a minute inscription - a prayer to the Virgin Mary in Latin - written on them and then scrunched up to be small enough to swallow whole.

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