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Title: Encyclical Letter Juan Pablo II
Author : Antonio Oviedo
Release Date : January 09, 2015
Genre: Christianity,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1476 KB

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Karol Jozef Wojtyla, known as John Paul II since his election to the papacy in October 1978, was born in Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometers. Krakow, on May 18, 1920. He was the youngest of three sons born to Karol Wojtyla and Emilia Kaczorowska. His mother died in 1929. His eldest brother Edmund (doctor) died in 1932 and his father (army sergeant) in 1941. His sister Olga died before he was born.

He was baptized by the priest Franciszek Zak on June 20, 1920 in the parish church of Wadowice; at age 9. He made his First Communion and was confirmed at 18. Upon graduation from high school in school Marcin Wadowita Wadowice, he enrolled in 1938 at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and a theater school.

When the Nazi occupation forces closed the university in 1939 and young Karol had to work in a quarry and then in a chemical factory (Solvay), to make a living and avoid deportation to Germany.

In 1942, aware of his call to the priesthood, he began courses in the clandestine seminary of Cracow, run by the Archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha. At the same time, it was one of the pioneers of the "Rhapsodic Theatre," also clandestine.

After the Second World War, he continued his studies at the, newly opened, and the Faculty of Theology at the agiellonian University in Krakow seminary, until his priestly ordination in Cracow on November 1, 1946 from the hands of Archbishop Sapieha.

Then he was sent to Rome, where, under the guidance of the French Dominican, Garrigou-Lagrange, a doctorate in 1948 in theology with a thesis on the subject of faith in the works of John of the Cross (Doctrine fide apud Sanctum Ioannem a Cruce). At that time, during his vacations, he exercised his pastoral ministry among the Polish immigrants of France, Belgium and Holland.

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