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Jul 3, 2009 10:38 am US/Eastern

Pope Approves Boston-Based Miracle

VATICAN CITY (AP) ― Pope Benedict XVI has placed Cardinal John Henry Newman on the path to possible sainthood by approving a miracle attributed to the 19th century Anglican convert's intercession.

Newman was one of the founders of the so-called Oxford Movement of the 1830s, which sought to revive certain Roman Catholic doctrines in the Church of England. He eventually converted to Catholicism in 1845 and was ordained a year later.

The miracle approved Friday by the pope concerns the medically inexplicable cure of Boston-area resident John Sullivan, who suffered from debilitating back pain for years but was cured after praying to Newman.

Read: Peg Rusconi's interview with Sullivan

Newman can now be beatified.

If ultimately canonized, he would be the first English-born saint since the Reformation.

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