During this time he was prayed over by some lay people from a charismatic prayer group, who happened to be visiting the hospital.

Through this he became involved in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) himself and discovered that he had been given a powerful gift of healing by God.

[2] From 1997, he was succeeded by the Indian priest Rufus Pereira as a member of the International Catholic Charismatic Council for Renewal.

[3] He died on June 8, 1999, from heart complications on San Antonio de Arredondo, Córdoba Province, Argentina.

Cardinal Nicolas de Jesús Lopez Rodríguez announced on June 11, 2007, that the Roman Catholic Church had initiated the beatification process for Tardif.