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 SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The Franciscan monk who will become Brazil's first native-born saint is credited with 5,000 miracle cures, but doctors are skeptical of his works and even a former Brazilian archbishiop laments the healings as fakery.
Despite the doubts, the canonization of Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvao by Pope Benedict XVI at an open-air mass on Friday is sure to please the more than 1 million Catholics expected to be in attendance.
The Vatican has officially certified the medical cases of two Brazilian women as divinely inspired miracles that justify the sainthood of Galvao.
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