Rome, Italy, Feb 9, 2005 / 22:00 pm
A young boy being treated for cancer paid a surprise visit to Pope John Paul II yesterday at Gemelli Hospital in Rome, reported the Associated Press.
The pope's personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, had paid a visit to the children in the hospital’s oncology ward, located next to the Pope’s room.
As Archbishop Dziwisz visited the children and gave them each a rosary, a young boy approached him and said he had been knocking on the Pope’s door since yesterday, but no one ever answered.
The archbishop reportedly replied: "Perhaps you would like to greet the Pope?" and then led him inside the Pope’s room.