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Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyła, was officially declared a saint by the Vatican on 27 April 2014. He is among the best-known saints from Poland, among them St. Adalbert of Prague, St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, St. Faustina Kowalska and St. Andrew Bobola. The Polish Pontiff’s beatification process was one of the shortest in history.
Jun 27, 2024 · John Paul said the Virgin had saved his life by guiding the bullet away from vital organs; in May 2000 the Vatican announced that the mysterious third message the Virgin gave the peasant children in Fátima, Portugal, in 1917 was a vision of the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.
Jul 2, 2015 · Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected successor to Pope John Paul I, the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church and takes the name John Paul II . October 17 . First Urbi et Orbi radio message of John Paul II. October 22 . Solemn inauguration of his ministry as universal Pastor of the Church. October 23 . John Paul II's historic embrace of Cardinal ...
The first-ever visit to Singapore by a Catholic pope was by John Paul II on 20 November 1986.1 During his brief stop in Singapore, Pope John Paul II met the Singapore president and prime minister, and conducted mass which was attended by about 70,000 people at the National Stadium.2 The five-hour visit at the invitation of then President Wee ...
Feb 1, 2005 · Karol Wojtyla took the name of John Paul II after being elected in a two-day session of the College of Cardinals sitting in the Sistine Chapel. Dynamic early life. Born near Krakow in 1920, the young Karol Wojtyla devoted his energies to sports including football and skiing. An avid theatre lover, at one time he also considered becoming an actor.
Karol Józef Wojtyla, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in the Polish town of Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometers from Krakow, on May 18, 1920. He was ...
Pope John Paul II Preparatory School. / 36.31583°N 86.67000°W / 36.31583; -86.67000. Pope John Paul II Preparatory School is a Catholic preparatory school in Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville .
