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Thank you Emilia !

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Emilia had always been poor in health since childhood,

without the possibility of improving it owing to the poorconditions in which she lived. She got married while veryyoung with a textile worker. They went to live in a newvillage away from relatives and acquaintances.

Edmund, their first born, died shortly afterwards. Hewas a very handsome boy, a good student and an athleteof great personality. Some years later, Emilia gave birthto a child girl who lived only few weeks owing to the badconditions in which the family lived.

Emilia belonged to a middle class family in aeuropean country devastated by famine after a long

protracted national war. Hunger and epidemicsthreatened the whole country.

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After fourteen years since Edmunds birth andsome ten after the death of her second daughter,Emilia was in a difficult situation. She was forty yearsold and in bad health: she had serious kidney problemsand her heart was progressively giving way because of acongenital condition.

The political situation of the country becameincresingly critical, as a consequence of the recentlyterminated World War I. The family lived with a bareminimum in a situation of uncertainty and with thefears of a new war.

In these terrible circumstances Emilia becameaware of being pregnant again. It was possible for apregnant woman to have recourse to an abortion and,although with difficulty, there were people ready tocarry it out.

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Edmund, the only brother of the baby she wasexpecting, would live only two more years. World War IIexploded few years later. The father of the not yet bornbaby would lose his life in that war.

Because of her age and poor

health pregnancy posed a seriousthreat to her life . Her difficultsituation prompted her to askwhat kind of world she couldoffer to the newborn considering

the miserable family conditionsand the imminent war. Emilia wasunaware of the fact that she wasleft only with ten more years tolive.

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Emilia chose to let her babylive and called him Karol.

This child is now an elderlyman, very alive and every timehe visits some country millionsof people shout:

John Paul II, we all loveyou"...

Thank you a million, Emilia !

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During the Angelus onSaturday 6th July, the

Pope John Paul II askedthose pilgrims present inSt. Peters Square in Rometo pray for him.

He says that he keeps going becauseof the strength of the prayers ofthose who pray for him.

Can you help him?

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Our Father, who art in heaven,hallowed be thy name,Thy kingdom come.Thy will be done on earth as it is in

heaven;Give us this day our daily bread;And forgive us our trespasses as weforgive those who trespass against us.And lead us not into temptation butdeliver us from evil.Amen

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Please send this message to 10 more people.

If you do this, we have made sure that a lot ofpeople have prayed for John Paul II in a short

period of time and supported his mission in theworld.