After a study that lasted more than 3 years for the healing of Mrs. Mary Kattan of Maghdouche, who was suffering from cancer, it was agreed in Lebanon and at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome, that the healing carried the characteristic of a miracle obtained through the prayers addressed to Abouna Yaacoub by the nephew of Mrs. Kattan, who lives in Canada, for the recovery of her aunt. The miracle was studied in Lebanon, under the ecclesiastical court, which listened to different witnesses, and then transmitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome, where the medical and the theological committees, as well as the consistory confirmed unanimously, that the healing has no scientific explanation. All these stages were crowned by the approval of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, on the 17^th of December 2007.