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The future St. John Paul II was born on May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, a town founded in 1327, and thus inactive in the days of Piskov and close Krakow, and close Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, where there was a Marian sanctuary. And it just passed another anniversary of this momentous event. He was the 3rd kid of Karol Wojtyła and Emilia Kaczorowska, who wanted 2 sons – a doctor and a priest! And Charles' older brother became a doctor, unfortunately he died young in the hospital. where he practiced, scarlet fever. inactive little fortunate was Olga's sister, who died in 1916 in sixteen hours after birth. And in 1929, his mother, the future Pope, was 9 years old and only remembered that she taught him to pray all day. Charles' widowed father besides frequently kneeled to prayer, so Charles grew in an atmosphere of piety, and early he was besides affected by the experience of death, and those closest to him. And he almost died as a kid erstwhile his friend played with his father's revolver, not knowing it was loaded: the bullet passed past Charles' arm breaking the glass. Zbigniew Sylkowski says best about his years of youth: “I was a colleague of his throughout the junior year. He was beyond us with his way of reasoning and his interest in the head. nevertheless he willingly participated in trips and in inter-class football matches, they were episodes for him erstwhile they filled most of the time. He was very popular and had a mir. someway he gave us the impression that it was a waste of time for any matters.” We know how much he kidnapped young Charles' theatre and literature. He besides advertised poems at school academies, and from simple school he was most eager to learn Polish. small wonder, therefore, that in the autumn of 1938 he began his Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University and besides acted in the theatre band. It was not expected that it would be the last year of the Second Republic, which Germany and the Soviets would destruct by occupying it, murdering people and moving borders. Charles spent these tragic years working in quarries, then in the Solvay mill and studying secretly theology at the Jagiellonian University, under the care of Father Adam Sapieha. His father died in 1941. A gathering with John Tyranowski, who discovered a figure of Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross before 20-year-old Charles, contributed to the election of the priesthood. “It became clear to me that Christ is calling me to a priesthood...” the Pope mentioned. And about St. John of the Cross he will compose a master's degree at the Jagiellonian University, and then he will defend his doctorate in Rome, where he sent Sapieha after ordination in 1946. He got to know the spirit of the West, and was besides a pastor of Polish miners in Belgium. But we will not fit his biography here, just add that after returning to the country in 1948 he became a vicar in Niegowicie, then at St. Florian's in Krakow. He was an excellent preacher. And again he continued his teaching work besides on KUL, for years he commuted to lectures by train from Krakow. He collaborated with “The Common Week” and “The Mark”, publishing articles and poetry. And in 1958, he was appointed bishop, in 1967 he became cardinal. So he was already in the ellipse of “papabili” and here he was indeed elected Pope on October 16, 1978. A Pole in the Vatican, it was sensational, but Wojtyła was rightly regarded as dissident, was seen in 1963 at the ceremony of Bishop Czesław Kaczmark, who was tortured by the UB for setting up a commission that determined that the alleged Kielce pogrom was in fact a provocation of the NKVD. Now he besides rapidly confirmed his opponent's attitude, throwing grain of future Solidarity during his first visit to Poland: "Do not be afraid...". And the hiring of Ali Agcy (by the KGB) who tried to kill John Paul II on 13 May 1981 in St Peter's Square was revenge for the solidarity in Poland! Atoli – as the Pope himself said – “someone was driving this ball...” and it must have been the parent of God of Fatima, due to the fact that on 13 May it took place Her apparition and John Paul II visited her sanctuary in Fatima, Portugal, on 13 May 1982. And there he thanked for saving me. He was possibly in the care of Our woman always, suggesting an accident with a weapon as a child. And then another accident erstwhile he came back from the quarry. And after the conclave in 1978, his place of work was the full planet. The mission of John Paul II became to carry Christ's message to all the nations of the world. With large hope he welcomed Poland's accession to the EU, but present he would not accept the departure from the Christian roots of Europe, besides from democracy. As Bishop of Rome, he took over the full world, which became like his parish This was possible, due to the fact that as the Cardinal of Krakow he soaked in what Krakow gives, where 1 can be universal and eternal, as in Rome. He confirmed this by beginning up to the world, and the book “Pope of the Pilgrim” (1999), developed by Cardinal Achille Silvestrini ., to which the preface was written by Cardinal Pio Laghi. It brings messages to 85 countries, and how large our diplomat was The Pope at least witnessed 1986 in which he visited India, Colombia, the island of Saint Lucia, France, Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji, fresh Zealand, Australia and Seychelles! While visiting Poland, he wished her regulation “people of conscience”, which we have never experienced for the Polish People's Republic. ... He was the mystic and man of prayer, and she was the sign of His holiness and a constant relation with God and Mary. At the time he fell into “total trance”, into ecstasy. He didn't forget it either in the Holy Land:

The white shepherd stands at the Wailing Wall

Praying for All Nations

in their languages and rites

- with humility and repentance

He asks for the cleansing of sins

committed by others.

Their burden he accepted and their tears,

Out of love for the victims and the villains.

He is so a vessel of the Spirit.

carried from tears and blood, wine and sweat.

He's the mailman of humanity.

carrying her guilt,

For he knows the address of the Lord

and in human pulse

He recognized space time.

Space and stone.

God lives in a cleft wall

And in a nebula of dancing stars.

St. John Paul II was a mystic, but standing close to people. His personality, with the tremendous power of radiation, has always been kind to others. And he had the ability to identify with a dialog partner. He besides had respect for each individual personality, its uniqueness. He could perceive and wanted to fix the world, and the crisis of Christianity saw already in the postwar years. Hence, his zealous mission to match God’s word on a planet scale. He besides knew that moral values were the node problem of the world, and their deficiency is the top evil, ruining good. This is seen frequently in conflicts and wars, and present especially, erstwhile the erstwhile evil of the russian empire was reborn in another strategy and intends to spill out into neighboring countries, poison another nations. The destiny of the planet is besides at stake erstwhile a totalitarian triangle threatens freedom and democracy, undermines the sovereignty of others and even assumes their absolute destruction. Only the papal message comforts us: “There is no evil from which God cannot bring distant greater good. There is no suffering from which he cannot make a way to him...’. We believe that, but for now, the gloomy work of the Antichrist is smitten. After 27 years of pontificate John Paul II prays present in the Father's home for the triumph of the good, and in our memory he never died...!

Marek Baterovich

( on the 103rd anniversary of His birthday)