Tumour patient says cure was God's mercy

Vatican - "The merciful Lord looks at us all without distinction," Andrino said. "Maybe it was me this time but maybe tomorrow it will be someone else. The merciful mother looks after everyone. I don't feel special."

The Brazilian man whose "miraculous" cure from a brain infection paved the way for Mother Teresa's canonisation this weekend said he is grateful for his life but doesn't feel particularly chosen by God.
Rather, Marcilio Haddad Andrino told a Vatican press conference on Friday he is just one example of God's ample mercy and love.
"The merciful Lord looks at us all without distinction," Andrino said. ?Maybe it was me this time but maybe tomorrow it will be someone else. The merciful mother looks after everyone. I don't feel special."
Pope Francis in December decreed that Andrino's cure was a miracle after Vatican doctors and theologians determined that it was medically inexplicable, instantaneous, lasting and due to the intercession of Mother Teresa, who died in 1997. It was the final step needed to canonise the nun who cared for the poorest of the poor.
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said all 100,000 tickets had been distributed for Sunday's Mass but that the crowd would likely be far greater, spilling into the main streets around St. Peter's Square. So far, 15 official delegations have confirmed their presence, 13 of them led by heads of state or government, and 600 journalists have been accredited. Andrino's wife, Fermanda Nascimento Rocha, recalled that she and her family began fervently praying for Mother Teresa's intercession after receiving a relic of the nun on Sept. 5, 2008, after Andrino began suffering from the effects of a viral brain infection.
By December of that year, despite powerful antibiotics, the brain abscesses and fluid had built up so much that Andrino was suffering debilitating headaches. According to the official story, doctors decided the only chance was to operate, but on the day surgery was scheduled, they couldn't intubate him.
 

From left, Sr. Mary Prema Pierick, Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, Marcilio Andrino, center and his wife Fernanda Nascimento Rocha pose for photographers at the end of a press conference at the Vatican, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016. Andrino's cure of a viral brain infection, declared a miracle by Pope Francis earlier this year, was the final step needed to declare Mother Teresa a saint. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

From left, Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, postulator of the cause of beatification and canonization of Mother Teresa, Marcilio Andrino, and his wife Fernanda Nascimento Rocha pose for photographers at the end of a press conference at the Vatican, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016. Andrino's cure of a viral brain infection, declared a miracle by Pope Francis earlier this year, was the final step needed to declare Mother Teresa a saint. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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