CRONICA

JUAN PABLO II
(1920-2005)

Karol Józef Wojtyla Elected Pope on October 16, 1978, he was born in Wadowice
(Poland) on May 18, 1920
He was the youngest of the three children of Karol Wojtyla and Emilia
Kaczorowska, who died in 1929. His older brother, Edmund, a doctor, died in 1932
and his father, an army non-commissioned officer, in 1941.
On May 13, 1981, in the Plaza de San Pedro, he suffered a serious attack. Saved
by the motherly hand of the Mother of God, after a long convalescence, he forgave
his attacker and, aware of having received a new life, he intensified his pastoral
commitments with heroic generosity
Murió en Roma, en el Palacio Apostólico Vaticano, el sábado 2 de abril de 2005, a
las 21h 37m, la víspera del Domingo in Albis o de la Divina Misericordia, fiesta
instituida por él. Los funerales solemnes en la Plaza de San Pedro y la sepultura
en las Grutas Vaticanas fueron celebrados el 8 de abril.

La solemne ceremonia de beatificación, en el atrio de la Basílica Papal de San

Pedro, el 1 de mayo de 2011, fue presidida por el Sumo Pontífice Benedicto XVI,
su inmediato sucesor y valioso colaborador durante muchos años como Prefecto
de la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe.
Pope John Paul was a wonderful person for me, who renewed the Catholic faith;
especially in young people, he instilled new values, as well as faith in God