Pope juan pablo ii biography of alberta

BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE

JOHN PAUL II
(1920-2005)

 

Karol Józef Wojtyła, elected Pope on 16 October 1978, was born in Wadowice, Poland, on 18 May 1920.

He was the third of three children born to Karol Wojtyła and Emilia Kaczorowska, who died in 1929.

Pope John Paul II famously visited the province in and then briefly again in The first visit was part of a day tour across Canada.

Pope John Paul II was the first pope to come to Canada, touring the country for 12 days and arriving in Edmonton on Sept.

Pope John Paul II was born Karol Józef Wojtyla in , in Wadowice, Poland.

In , Pope John Paul II became the first Pope to set foot on Canadian soil, when the papal aircraft landed at the airport in Quebec City.

The Pope mentioned Alberta's famously unpredictable weather in his opening remarks, before giving a fiery speech that touched on the dangers of.

His elder brother Edmund, a physician, died in 1932, and his father, Karol, a non-commissioned officer in the army, died in 1941.

He was nine years old when he received his First Communion and eighteen when he received the Sacrament of Confirmation.

After completing high school in Wadowice, he enrolled in the Jagellonian University of Krakow in 1938.

When the occupying Nazi forces closed the University in 1939, Karol worked (1940-1944) in a quarry and then in the Solvay chemical factory to earn a living and to avoid deportation to Germany.

Feeling called to the priesthood, he began his studies in 1942 in the clandestine major seminary of Krakow, directed by the Archbishop Adam Stefan Sapieha.

During that