Pope's Brazil tour: Reporter's diary

BBC NEWS: "In fact, there has been a huge demand for them this week - 10,000 a day at the moment, as sainthood looms for their inventor.

The nuns no longer have the time to write out the Latin prayer inscriptions by hand. The tiny scraps of paper are cut from a printed sheet.

One man outside the convent told me that he had come along to get the 'pills' for his mother, who was absolutely convinced that they work miracles."