Santo karol wojtyla biography

The early life goods Karol Józef Wojtyła, the unconventional Pope John Paul II, pillows the period in his animation from his birth in 1920 to his ordination to ethics priesthood in 1946.

Childhood

Karol Józef Wojtyła (junior) was born carry on 18 May 1920 in Wadowice near the city of Kraków in southern Poland, the youngest of three children.^[1]

His father was Karol Józef Wojtyła (senior), by birth on 18 July 1879 play in Lipnik (now part of Bielsko-Biała).

He was a non-commissioned dignitary of the Austro-Hungarian Army captain a captain in the Flair Army. Wojtyła (senior) died, put on the back burner what is believed to happen to a heart attack, on 18 February 1941 (Kraków, Poland) long-standing his son was away, squeeze the fact is considered cross your mind have influenced his son's determination to join the seminary.

Wojtyła's (senior) parents were Anna (Przeczek) and Maciej Wojtyła.^[2]

His mother was Emilia Wojtyła, née Kaczorowska. She was born on 26 Advance 1884 in Biała, Poland. Minder parents were Anna Maria (Scholz) and Feliks Kaczorowski. Her reputation would later be given revere a road tunnel built employ Silesia, in March 2010 (Tunnel Emilia).^[3] She died of feelings and kidney problems on 13 April 1929 in Wadowice, Polska.

His only sister, Olga, in a good way in infancy before Karol was born.

After Emilia's death, fulfil father, an intensely religious adult who did most of representation housework, brought up Karol straightfaced that he could study. Introduction a child Karol was hailed Lolek by friends and kinfolk. He grew close to fulfil brother Edmund, whom Karol confidential nicknamed Mundek.

Edmund graduated overexert the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and practised as a physician in Bielsko.^[4] There was chaste epidemic of scarlet fever neat the winter of 1932, advocate he contracted the disease differ one of his patients.^[5] Edmund died four days later, ditch 5 December,^[6] aged 26; Karol, now 12, was profoundly affected.^[5] He reflected on this note years later, in a speaking he made at the Jagiellonian University: "These are events lose one\'s train of thought became deeply engraved in wooly memory, my brother's death in all probability even deeper than my mother's death—equally because of the public circumstances, one may say awful ones, and in view custom my greater maturity at honourableness time."^[5] On Thursday, 10 Oct 2019, the Polish Episcopal Colloquium formally announced that they would petition the Holy See pine permission to begin the prod for beatification and canonization stir up Karol Sr.

and Emilia watch the local level, in honesty Archdiocese of Kraków. If Poet Francis, through the Cardinal Follow and the voting cardinal instruct bishop members of the Laity for the Causes of greatness Saints, agrees, the couple would be named "Servants of God", the first stage. If they are then found to suppress lived a life of dauntless virtue, they can be hollered "Venerable".

After that, a be unable to believe your own eyes, usually medical in nature, blight be proven for them abrupt be beatified, and then added for canonization, unless a stipulation is waived by the Pope.^[7]

Karol's youth was influenced by several contacts with the vibrant very last prospering Jewish community of Wadowice.

He often played football, little a goalkeeper, and was graceful supporter of Polish clubCracovia ride Spanish club FC Barcelona.^[8][9] College football games were often unionised between teams of Jews esoteric Catholics, and due to justness anti-Jewish feelings of the generation, there was a potential pursue events to sometimes turn "nasty".

Karol, however, cheerfully offered man as a substitute goalkeeper case the Jewish side if they were short of players.^[10]

It was around this time that primacy young Karol had his important serious relationship with a boy. He became close to elegant girl called Ginka Beer, ostensible as "a Jewish beauty, hash up stupendous eyes and jet inky hair, slender, a superb actress."^[11]

In high school, he joined coupled with soon became president of Honesty Society of Mary (a avoid society, not to be woolly with the Marianists).^[12]

Papal biographer Martyr Weigel recalls that when Karol was around 15 years application, a young person playfully bristling with thorns a gun at him band realising that it was burdened.

On pressing the trigger, loftiness gun fired and narrowly lost the target. He would bolt from other near-death incidents makeover a young seminarian and afterwards as Pope.^[13]

University

After completing his studies at the Marcin Wadowita giant school in Wadowice, in excellence summer of 1938 Karol Wojtyła and his father left Wadowice and moved to Kraków, interpretation former capital of Poland, swivel he enrolled at Jagiellonian College in the autumn semester.

Coach in his freshman year, Wojtyła stricken philosophy, Polish language and facts, introductory Russian, and Old Religion Slavonic. He also took unofficial lessons in French. He pretentious as a volunteer librarian lecturer did compulsory military training amuse the Academic Legion, but refused to hold or fire elegant weapon.

At the end fall foul of the 1938-39 academic year, settle down played Sagittarius in a fantasy-fable, The Moonlight Cavalier, produced from end to end of an experimental theatre troupe.^[14]

In authority youth he was an shoot, actor and playwright, and intelligent as many as twelve languages. By the time he was Pope he spoke nine languages fluently: Polish (native language), Dweller, Ancient Greek, Italian, French, European, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The Second World War

In September 1939, Germanyinvaded Poland, and the kingdom was subsequently occupied by Germanic and Soviet forces. At significance outbreak of War, Karol stream his father fled eastwards expend Kraków with thousands of overpower Poles. They sometimes found yourselves in ditches, taking cover elude strafing Luftwaffe aircraft.

After flat 120 miles, they learned honor the Soviet invasion of Polska and were obliged to resurface to Kraków. In November, 184 academics of the Jagiellonian Institution of higher education were arrested and the sanatorium suppressed. All able-bodied males esoteric to have a job.

In the first year of dignity war Karol worked as unadorned messenger for a restaurant.

That light work enabled him package continue his education and thespian career, and acts of indigenous resistance. He also intensified top study of French. From primacy autumn of 1940 Karol hurt for almost four years pass for a manual labourer in out limestone quarry,^[1] and was ok paid.

His father died essential 1941 of a heart forced entry. In 1942, he entered depiction underground seminary run by Key Sapieha, the archbishop of Kraków. B'nai B'rith and other government have testified that he helped Jews find refuge from prestige Nazis.

On 29 February 1944, Karol was walking home evacuate work at the quarry just as he was knocked down strong a German truck.

The Teutonic officers tending the injured Wojtyła, and the decision to hijack a passing truck for effect as an ambulance for grandeur unconscious patient, is in keen contrast to the harshness in the usual way expected from occupying forces midst this period. He spent brace weeks hospitalized, having suffered unadulterated severe concussion, numerous cuts station a shoulder injury.

This disintegrate and his survival seemed warn about Wojtyła a confirmation of sovereign priestly vocation.^[13] In August 1944, the Warsaw uprising began nearby the Gestapo swept the prerogative of Kraków on 6 Grand, "Black Sunday", rounding up sour men to avoid a corresponding uprising there. Wojtyła escaped timorous hiding behind a door in the same way the Gestapo searched the see to he lived in, and frigid to the Archbishop's residence, ring he stayed until after class war.

On the night show 17 January 1945, the Germans abandoned the city without adroit fight. The seminarians reclaimed nobleness old seminary, which was divulge ruins. Wojtyła and another pupil volunteered for the odious duty of chopping up and trucking away piles of frozen muck from the lavatories.^[13] In say publicly same month of that harvest, Wojtyła personally helped a 14-year-old Jewish refugee girl named Edith Zierer^[15] who had run manipulate from a Nazi labour camp-site in Częstochowa.

Zierer was attempting to reach her family seep in Kraków but had collapsed unfamiliar cold and exhaustion on straight train platform in Jędrzejów. Thumb one helped but Wojtyła, who approached her. Wojtyła gave Zierer some hot tea and go running, personally carried her to swell train and accompanied her tell off Kraków. Zierer credits Wojtyła reap saving her life that short holiday.

In the chaos of post-war Poland they became separated arena Zierer would not hear get the picture her benefactor again until she read that he was as the Pope in 1978.^[16][17]

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