showing their similarities between the church. pope john paul ii brought people to the church with his tireless globe trotting. >> it is fun to be a part of the canonization. >> i kind of knew these people. and one of them i touched and helped carry in the final years of his life. >> reporter: most saints had two miracles attributed to them, like the mysterious disappearance of the parkinson's disease in this nun who prayed to john paul ii. and john xxii is associated with only one miracle, and john paul ii was fast-tracked by popular demand. the first non-italian pope in centuries, a polish pope was a gift to his people as they struggled to keep alive under the godless communist system. >> he was a man of a lot of