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Pacquiao: God appeared to me
Topic Started: Dec 27 2009, 06:30 PM (387 Views)
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Of all the stories swirling about Manny Pacquiao's blessed head this Christmas week, the one in the Philippines Inquirer that claims he told 1,500 Filipinos God once appeared to him is by far the strangest.

Anyone familiar with the zeal of Catholicism will understand the deeply religious boxer will not have made the claim lightly.

According to the country's largest broadsheet newspaper, Pacquiao revealed at a birthday party held in his honour in General Santos City: "In my 31 years here on earth, God appeared to me once and told me to have unconditional faith in Him. That is true. I was not yet very popular and world champion when our God appeared to me and assured me of strength and power. This is the first time I reveal this ... although I was asked many times what are the secrets that made me very popular and world champion."

Pacquiao, a devout Catholic, told Brian Doogan in The Times last April: "God has given me a gift and it is my duty to share the fruits of this gift with my people." He has done that avidly for years; no one turning up at the gates of his big house asking for help is turned away.

"Would you like to know where I get my strength and power?" Pacquiao asked his birthday guests. The gathering, according to The Inquirer, "yelled, 'Yes!' then fell silent to catch every word he was saying. He said God told him, 'Just trust me, I will not leave you, I will not abandon you.'"

Cynics will say Pacquiao is looking for votes in preparation for his run at Congress in May. The rest of us will merely wonder at the humanity of his people's most remarkable representative.

As for his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jnr in March possibly falling through because the American insists he take blood tests for performance-enhancing drugs, don't worry about it. With $200m at stake, even Jesus would tell him to get on with it.


SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/dec/24/manny-pacquaio-god-floyd-mayweather
Edited by justin.kredible, Dec 27 2009, 06:47 PM.
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