drawing upon his experience in Poland. Pope John Paul II and the head of the Catholic church in Poland Cardinal-Archbishop Stefan Wyszynski (L) address faithful June 2, 1979 in Warsaw during ...
It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. There, in June 1979, John Paul II asked God for peace during ...
Forty people worked on the project, including 20 sculptors and carvers from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany, led by Slovak artist Adam Bakoš. Pope John Paul II led the Catholic ...
With the passing of Pope John Paul II, the world has lost a moral leader fervently committed to fighting the prejudice and hatred that led to the Holocaust. Karol Jozef Wojtyla was born and raised in ...
The message of Fatima tangibly intervenes in John Paul II’s life on May 13 ... During his fifth pastoral voyage to Poland the Pope consecrated a new church dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima. He said in ...
Meanwhile Pole Karol Wojtyla, who would eventually become Pope John Paul II, was trained and ordained in complete secrecy in Communist Poland. When he became the first non-Italian pope for 450 ...
Abstract from the original German talks given at the German Mariological Consortium on Influece of Mary on Pope John ... Thursday 1979, John Paul II alluding to Jn 19:25ff. invoked Mary as Mother of ...
In 1715, Pope Clement XI chose her as the special patron of Poland and Lithuania. St Kunigunde was canonized by Pope John Paul II in June 1999. More than half a million people attended the ceremony in ...