The Voice of America News website reports today (April 26, 2011) that the Vatican has decided that blood taken from Pope John Paul II -- shortly before his death -- will be used in the official relic for veneration during his beatification on May 1.
In a statement yesterday, the Vatican said that several vials of blood -- that were never used -- had been drawn for a possible transfusion shortly before the pope's death on April 2, 2005.
After the beatification, a vial of Pope John Paul's blood will be installed as a relic in a church in Krakow in the pope's native Poland.
Beatification is the last major step before possible sainthood.
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