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Hace 3 días · EWTN Starting with Pope St. John Paul II’s visit to his native Poland in 1979, this 2018 documentary chronicles this Pope’s role in liberating the peoples of Eastern Europe and Russia from seven decades of atheistic Communist bloodshed and tyranny. TUESDAY, Nov. 9. Lassie Trilogy.
Hace 5 días · St. John Paul II (born May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland—died April 2, 2005, Vatican City; beatified May 1, 2011; canonized April 27, 2014; feast day October 22) was the bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and the first from a Slavic country.
Hace 3 días · Saint John Paul II died on April 2, 2005. However, the late pope survived two assassination attempts, one of which provided the faithful with a shirt relic the church preserves and venerates today. The Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul preserve this important relic in Rome.
Hace 3 días · Pope John Paul II shakes hands with Queen Elizabeth II as he leaves Buckingham Palace after their historic May 28, 1982, meeting in London. (photo: Ron Bell / AFP via Getty Images) “For the first time in history,” said Pope St. John Paul II after he stepped off the airplane, “a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil.”
Hace 3 días · Pope John Paul II. The visit of Saint John Paul II to Colombia took place 18 years later, in 1986, and lasted seven days, during which he toured ten cities.
Hace 4 días · He was declared a servant of God by his successor, John Paul II, on 23 November 2003, the first step on the road to sainthood. Pope Francis confirmed his heroic virtue on 8 November 2017 and named him as Venerable. Pope Francis presided over the beatification on 4 September 2022.
Hace 2 días · John XXIII's tomb is located near the tombs of both Pope Pius X and Pope John Paul II. On 3 December 1963, US President Lyndon B. Johnson posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom , the United States' highest civilian award, in recognition of the good relationship between Pope John XXIII and the United States of America.
