Crowds gather for the beatification of John Paul

 They sleep in alleys and celebrated a mass in the restaurant car.

Eight hundred poles embark on a train special Friday night for 26 hours across Europe, destination of Rome and the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II. They joined tens of thousands of Poles who are mass in Rome for the beatification on Sunday, a major celebration for a nation of joy to see the Polish Pontiff closer to holiness.

Saturday afternoon, the train of Pilgrim was raining former Italian vineyards and church steeples, after crossing through the Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria.

The day began with morning mass celebrated by priests and monks in the dining car of the train. They gathered around an altar of fortune on a table to eat chamarrée with a white cloth and a crucifix four inches (10 centimeters). The faithful followed as well as in the aisles, some hands or knees standing in the prayer, and probing priests their descent went packaged, narrow to give them Communion.

Mieczyslawa Rzepecka, 55, who was the pilgrimage with her husband and son, said she planned to eat dried biscuits and water for the trip, a partial fast meant as a gesture of piety. The long train journey did not sentence him - she said that she knows that most of the Poles make travel by bus, which is longer and narrower.

"If you love John Paul, this is not hard," she said.

In addition, however, deepened Saturday luncheon of balls of pork with dill sauce, boiled potatoes and beet. In a compartment, which, prior to travel, were foreign passengers were share the cake and recalling their memories of John Paul.

Beata Klodkiewicz, a teacher of religion of 47 years, speaks with passion in support of Jean-Paul teachings on the sanctity of marriage and its opposition to fertilization in vitro.

"I had six errors, but I would never consider in vitro," she said, sitting next to her husband. "During in vitro many babies can be destroyed."

The train "Popie?uszko" pilgrims travelling bears the name of Jerzy Popie?uszko, a Polish priest recently beatified for was assassinated by the Communist regime in 1984 - the system that John Paul is credited for helping to overthrow.

The train is due to shoot in Rome, a few hours before the beatification on Sunday.

For those who arrived earlier, a night prayer vigil begins Saturday night at the Circus Maximus of the Rome, featuring the testimony of the nun French whose inexplicable treatment of Parkinson's disease has been the necessary miracle to beatify John Paul.

Travel for poles on board the Popie?uszko began with a mass in the ancient Church of the Popie?uszko Warsaw on Friday night. The pilgrims then made their way together at a nearby station, pulling luggage or carrying of backpacks and water bottles.

Some on Board said they were going to Rome to make with John Paul for prayers, that he already had a response, or for Pope Benedict XVI for the early beatification of their beloved compatriot. Others said that they were looking for cures for health problems, while some said they wanted to resume the powerful sense of community that over the life of Jean-Paul youth meetings, that he led.

Sylwia Kurowska, 31, said that it expected a similar to the funeral of Jean-Paul spiritual experience a packed St. Peter Square in 2005, when the wind turned the pages of a book of Gospels on his coffin.

The suffering of Jean-Paul has highlighted in beatification (AP)

ROME, Pope John Paul II own suffering is highlighted on the eve of her beatification, with aid testify to his long battle against Parkinson's disease and a French nun cured in the same condition plays a role of features in the ceremonies.

The Vatican decreed that inexplicable healing of sister Marie Simon-Pierre of Parkinson's disease was the necessary miracle to beatify John Paul. Its history is pointed out to the night prayer vigil Saturday evening before the beatification of Sunday mass for John Paul.

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims converged on Rome for the beatification and by place Saturday St. Pierre was excitement despite a steady rain.

The dusk, many faithful gross backpacks and sleeping bags had begun giant field of Circus Maximus in Rome for the wake, in which Simon-Pierre will be accompanied by long-time private Secretary of Jean-Paul and his spokesman in offering testimony about the late Pope of filling.

The Vigil was scheduled to last all night, a so-called "white night" of prayer which will continue into eight churches being kept open in the city before open it barricades around the place Saint-Pierre to pilgrims at 5: 30 (0330GMT) for the beatification of 10 hours (0800GMT)Mass.

Beatification takes place despite a strike by critics on fast recording speed with which John Paul is honoured and outrage continues on abuses committed scandal: many of the crimes and cover-ups of priests who raped children occurred on 27 years of Jean-Paul watch.

But the Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, former head of the Office of saint-manufacture of the Vatican who presided over the investigation into the life of John Paul for the beatification, said Saturday that the Pope could not be held responsible for somethingthat he didn't.

A video to be shown to the Circus Maximus vigil editing should focus in particular on the last months of the life of John Paul, when his own Parkinson's disease made it impossible for him to speak or walk, and he was hospitalized for days at a time. He died on April 2, 2005.

Rita Megliorin, nurse of the head in the Department of intensive care of the Rome Gemelli hospital, tend to John Paul during his last months. She said at the time John Paul was to take care of it, it has experienced a personal transformation of kinds of watching how he dealt with his imminent death.

"My approach of God has always been a little skeptical." I had a vision of a God who punishes you when you make a mistake, "she said to journalists Friday. "Working in intensive care, I have seen so much suffering.".

She said watching John Paul suffer and speaking with him to learn to understand "the deeper aspects of the love of God".

Simon-Pierre suffers from the same condition: John Paul and said his condition had worsened at the same time as the death of Jean-Paul. She said that she and his companions moniales prayers John Paul in the night of June 2, 2005, and she woke up the next morning, feeling that his symptoms disappeared.

"In the chapel before the Eucharist, I heard a voice that says"you are cured"," Simon-Pierre, said in a recent interview with Catholic broadcaster TV2000. "And I have been convinced." I have never doubted it. I never put in discussion. It is for me a certainty "that John Paul had intervened on his behalf."

She said that she agreed to submit to years of testing required for the Vatican confirmed that its cure is inexplicable because it was satisfied that John Paul was a saint. Saint-making Vatican complicated procedures require that a miracle attributed to the intercession of the candidate be confirmed before the beatification, the first step toward sainthood.

"I agreed to go with her to the end", said Simon-Pierre. "I agreed to take all these reviews for the Church, for the world... for John Paul, it can thus be recognized a saint." "And I think that soon it will be."

Joaquin Navarro-Valls, spokesman for long-time Jean-Paul and training a psychiatrist, was recently asked if he could soon be declared "doctor" of the Church, a special title given to certain saints whose writings or teachings have had a significant contribution to Christianity.

Navarro-Valls quoted disease, John Paul and his many writings on the meaning and value of suffering.

"It is such richness that I was going to appoint a doctor of medicine," Navarro-Valls said, adding that John Paul should first be canonized and then have a future Pope to publish the Decree.

Navarro-Valls insisted that John Paul deserves beatification despite the fallout from the scandal of the abuses, saying that the saint manufacturing process is not a judgment of how John Paul administered the Church, but if he has lived a life of Christian virtue.

But groups of victims, such as the network of survivors to the United States for those abused by priests said the beatification just speedy "rubbed salt more in these injuries" of the victims.

And the night, the main francophone newspaper in Belgium, charged Saturday that the pace of the beatification contrasts sharply with the "long hold" victims of abuse had to stand justice. Belgium Catholic Church was rocked by new reports of hundreds of victims and the resignation of its Bishop longer in post who admitted to abusing two nephews.

"It is (beatification) of a man obsessed with the rights of unborn children (and the rejection of condoms) but which allowed these same children without protection... not to address the pedophile priests issue during his reign," said the editorial.

Cardinal Martins, however, said that the investigation into the life of John Paul had taken into account abuse scandal.

"They discussed much," he said. "But you cannot say that he was informed of everything."

"If I am not aware of something, that conviction should I?" he asked rhetorically. "This is a not touch all the Holiness of John Paul.".

Poles from trip to Rome for the beatification of John Paul (AP)

Aboard the TRAIN POPIE?USZKO - of the tens of thousands of Poles are travel to Rome on trains, planes and automobiles for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, a major celebration for a nation of joy to see the Polish Pontiff closer to holiness.

A large number of Polish faithful were well Saturday, including 800 faithful that are mounted on board this train Friday night for the trip of 26 hours across Europe.

They are due to be drawn just before the beatification on Sunday.

For those who arrived earlier, a vigil of prayer throughout the night from Saturday evening to Circus Maximus of the Rome will begin the celebrations, featuring the French testimony of the nun whose inexplicable cure of Parkinson's disease has been the necessary miracle to beatify John Paul.