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The Venerable Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005, born Karol Józef Wojtyła

John Paul II has been acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. It is widely held that he was instrumental in ending Communism in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe.

John Paul II apologised to Jews, Galileo, women, victims of the Inquisition, Muslims killed by the Crusaders, and almost everyone who had suffered at the hands of the Catholic Church through the years. Even before he became the Pope, he was a prominent editor and supporter of initiatives like the Letter of Reconciliation of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops from 1965.

As Pope, he officially made public apologies for over 100 of these wrongdoings, including:

▪ The legal process on the Italian scientist and philosopher Galileo Galilei, himself a devout Catholic, around 1633 (31 October 1992).

▪ Catholics' involvement with the African slave trade (9 August 1993).

▪ The Church Hierarchy's role in burnings at the stake and the religious wars that followed the Protestant Reformation (May 1995, in the Czech Republic).

▪ The injustices committed against women, the violation of women's rights and for the historical denigration of women (10 July 1995, in a letter to "every woman").

▪ The inactivity and silence of many Catholics during the Holocaust (see the article Religion in Nazi Germany) (16 March 1998)

"The future starts today, not tomorrow," Pope John Paul ll

Karol Wojtyla was a young parish priest in Dabrowa. He was approached by a devout Catholic Mrs Jachowicz to have a Jewish child in her care baptised. On hearing that a child had been entrusted into her care by the parents prior to deportation, he refused to perform the baptismal ceremony as there was hope that once the war was over, that his relatives might take him.

Shachne Hiller not only survived the war, but was eventually reunited with his relatives in the United States. Karol Wojtyla was later to become Pope, known as Pope John Paul II.

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The Holocaust - Martin Gilbert page 549-550

Pope John Paul II.

Daaalekaaa.. rodzina, po "kądzieli" od strony mamy-babci-prababci... aż do Ojca Świętego!!! :)
Oto ta linia. :) " Karol Św. J.P.II Wojtyła is your fifth cousin once removed's husband's sister's husband's father's wife's third cousin twice removed's husband's second great uncle's wife's uncle's wife's great aunt's husband's fourth great niece's husband's first cousin once removed. " Jestem szczęśliwy! :) Szczecin. dn. 28.09.2015r. Leszek Józef Zydor
Roman Catholic Saint, Pope.

Born Karol Joseph Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland, to an administrative officer in the Polish Army and a former schoolteacher, he rose to become the most visible and most-traveled Pope. As a youth, he enjoyed sports and later developed a love of the theater, planning to become a professional actor.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, he clandestinely pursued both his studies and his acting while working as a stone cutter to support himself and to hold the work permit he needed to avoid deportation or imprisonment. He was also active in the UNIA, a Christian democratic underground organization. B'nai B'rith and other authorities have testified that he helped Jews find refuge from the Nazis.

While convalescing from an accident, he decided to pursue a religious vocation, and, by 1942, was studying for the priesthood. He was ordained a priest on November 1, 1946. On July 4, 1958, Father Wojtyla was named Auxiliary Bishop of Krakow, and, four years later, assumed leadership of the diocese with the title of Vicar Capitular. He was named Archbishop of Krakow on January 13, 1964. He was a visible leader, often taking a public stand against communism and government officials.

In 1967, Pope Paul VI elevated him to Cardinal. By this time, several of his poems and writings had been published, including "Easter Vigils and Other Poems." He was created Cardinal on June 26, 1967.

On October 16, 1978, at age 58, he was elected to succeed Pope John Paul I. He was the first Polish Pope and also the first non-Italian Pope since Pope Adrian VI in 1522.

His more than 100 trips abroad attracted enormous crowds (some of the largest ever assembled). With these trips, John Paul covered a distance far greater than that traveled by all other popes combined. They have been regarded as an outward sign of his efforts at global bridge-building between nations and between religions that was central to his pontificate.

On May 13, 1981, the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima, Pope John Paul II suffered severe wounds when he was shot and struck twice as he entered St. Peter's Square to address a general audience. He was hospitalized for two and a half months, but fully recovered from his wounds. He credited Our Lady, to whom he prayed, with saving him. On May 13, 1982, the first anniversary of the assassination attempt, he traveled to Fatima and placed one of the bullets in Our Lady's crown. Two days after Christmas in 1983, he went to the prison and met with his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca.

Pope John Paul II enjoyed hiking, skiing, backpacking, and kayaking. Young people had a special place in his heart. In 1985, he called young people to join him for the first annual World Youth Day celebration in Rome. Since that time, he continued to speak with young people, encouraging them to live the Gospels and reach out in a spirit of evangelization to their peers.

On July 27, 2000, he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the Congress of the United States. He was beatified on May 1, 2011, the feast of Divine Mercy to which he was devoted, by Pope Benedict XVI, and was canonized on April 27, 2014, also on Divine Mercy Sunday, at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City by Pope Francis.

Heart failure from profound hypotension and complete circulatory collapse from septic shock.

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