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 John Paul II
| Pope John Paul I died after one month as the Pope. In what year did he die? | John Paul II
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1978. The Pope never quite felt he belonged in this position and maybe this led to his early death!
1942. He was ordained a priest in 1941. Pope Paul VI made him a cardinal in 1967.
| Where was an assassination attempt made on Pope John Paul II? | John Paul II
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St. Peter's Square, Rome. He was shot and seriously wounded as he entered St. Peter's Square in
1981.
May 1920. His name was Karol Josef Wojtyla.
| What was the date the new Pope had his inauguration? | John Paul II
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22nd October 1978. The voting process started on 15th October 1978.
| What happens as soon as the Pope to be accepts the position? | John Paul II
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He is taken to a room called the crying room to be fitted with one of three white cassocks. Pope John Paul II was the youngest man to become Pope in the twentieth century. He was 58 when elected.
| Prior to John Paul II, where was the last non-Italian Pope from? | John Paul II
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Utrecht. The last non-Italian Pope was Adrian VI. He was born in Utrecht in the Netherlands. He was Pope from 1522-1523.
Polish. Pope John Paul II was born in Wadowice, Poland. He studied literature and philosophy and was a poet and playwright.
| Where was the first place the Pope visited after becoming the Pope? | John Paul II
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Assisi. Pope John Paul II was the most traveled Pope in history.
Karol Wojtyla. He took the name John Paul after being elected Pope.
Wadowice. His home is only a few miles from the Auschwitz concentration camp. He has paid many visits to Auschwitz, as well as many other former camps, to pay homage to those who perished there during the Holocaust.
May 13th, 1981. On Wednesday, May 13th, 1981, the Pope went out for his daily audience in St. Peter's Square. A gun was fired by Mehmet Ali Agca hitting the Pope and sending him to the hospital. It took surgeons five and a half hours to repair the damage to his abdominal cavity, right arm and left hand.
the bullet used in his assasination attempt. Ironically, the Pope was shot on the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima. He has stayed very devout to her ever since.
October 16th, 1978. This was only a few months after John Paul I was elected pope. The previous pontif's papacy unfortunately only lasted one month before he died in September of 1978.
1920. He was born in Wadowice, Poland on May 18, 1920. His father was a former officer in the Polish army and his mother a former schoolteacher.
Karol Wojtyla. Karol translates into Charles (or Carl) in English.
Skawa. The river was often flooded and it took a great amount of courage to swim it.
| In 1964 Pope John Paul II was appointed as resident Archbishop of which city? | Pope John Paul II
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Krakow. In 1958, he was named a bishop of Krakow and in 1964, he assumed leadership. He often took a public stand against communism and government officials.
58. He was the youngest pope to be elected in 132 years.
Communism. During his first visit to Poland he told the people, 'You are men. You have dignity. Don't crawl on your bellies.' Many regard his appointment the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union.
| What new celebration did Pope John Paul II establish on March 23, 1986? | Pope John Paul II
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World Youth Day. The first World Youth Day was held in Rome. Since then World Youth Days have been held in Paris, Toronto, Buenos Aires, and Czestochowa (Poland).
| What nationality was the man who attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II? | Pope John Paul II
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Turkish. Mehmet Ali Agca shot the pope twice in 1981. The pope spent two and a half months hospitalized until he fully recovered from his wounds. On December 27, Pope John Paul went to the prison and met with his would-be assassin.
April 2, 2005. Pope John Paul II suffered from Parkinson's disease, tracheal constriction, benign prostate hypertrophy, and hypertensive cardiopathy, but the cause of his death was septic shock and irreversible cardio-circulatory collapse.
He was an officer in the Polish army.. John Paul II was born, Karol Joseph Wojtyla, on May 18th 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. His father was an administrative officer in the Polish army, and his mother was a teacher. His mother died nine years later, and his father died in 1941. When he was thirteen his elder brother died, and he also had an elder sister who died before he was born.
He worked as a stonecutter in a quarry.. He worked in a quarry at Zakrzowek, near Cracow, and later in a chemical factory. During this period, he is known to have been a member of the Polish resistance. In order to escape Nazi persecution he then went into hiding, and continued to study secretly for the priesthood. In 1946, just one year after the war ended, he was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest.
263. John Paul II was the 264th Pope, and was elected on October 16th 1978. His predecessor, John Paul I, had only been in office for thirty-three days, and his untimely death undoubtedly influenced the College of Cardinals to elect a younger and fitter man as pope. John Paul II was the first non-Italian to be elected pope for 456 years, the last being Adrian VI (1522-1523) who was born in Utrecht.
| John Paul II was elected pope on October 16th 1978. This year became known as 'the year of the three popes'. John Paul II's predecessor, John Paul I, reigned as pope for only thirty three days, but who was the other pope who reigned in 1978? | The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II
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Paul VI. Paul VI was born Giovanni Battista Montini in Lombardy, Italy on 26th September, 1897. He became pope on 21st June, 1963, and died on 6th August, 1978. When he made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1964, he became the first pope in over 150 years to leave Italy. He subsequently visited India, U.S.A., South East Asia, and Africa.
Clement X reigned from 1670 to 1676. Gregory XVI reigned from 1831 to 1846, and John XXIII was Paul VI's predecessor, reigning from 1958 to 1963.
An assassination attempt was made on him.. A fanatical Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, fired several shots at John Paul II during a public appearance in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The pontiff was hit by four bullets which caused severe wounds. In 1983 he visited his would-be assassin in prison, and prayed with him. One of the bullets fired by Agca was later set in a jewelled crown, and donated to 'Our Lady of Fatima Basilica' in Portugal.
five. In October 1979 John Paul II became the first ever pope to visit the White House where he was received by President Jimmy Carter, who surprised him by greeting him in Polish. Ronald Reagan met John Paul II in June, 1982, and again in June, 1987. President George H.W. Bush met the pontiff in November 1991, and his son, President George W. Bush, met him in June 2004. President Bill Clinton met John Paul II in June 1994.
84. John Paul II died at 9.37 p.m. on Saturday 2nd April 2005. His death was formally announced by the Cardinal Camerlengo (the Papal chamberlain), Eduardo Martinez Somalo, who said in Latin "Vere Papa mortuus est" (the Pope is truly dead). Shortly after this announcement, thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square were led in prayer by Cardinal Angelo Sodano.
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