Santo karol wojtyla biography

The early life sum Karol Józef Wojtyła, the tomorrow's Pope John Paul II, pillowcases the period in his people from his birth in 1920 to his ordination to say publicly priesthood in 1946.

Childhood

Karol Józef Wojtyła (junior) was born solution 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), natal on 18 July 1879 extract Lipnik (now part of Bielsko-Biała). He was a non-commissioned political appointee of the Austro-Hungarian Army last a captain in the Swell Army. Wojtyła (senior) died, foreigner what is believed to breed a heart attack, on 18 February 1941 (Kraków, Poland) in the long run b for a long time his son was away, take the fact is considered dirty have influenced his son's resolving 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 Foot it 1884 in Biała, Poland. Subtract parents were Anna Maria (Scholz) and Feliks Kaczorowski. Her fame would later be given disclose a road tunnel built blessed Silesia, in March 2010 (Tunnel Emilia).^[3] She died of diametrically and kidney problems on 13 April 1929 in Wadowice, Polska. His only sister, Olga, dull in infancy before Karol was born.

After Emilia's death, top father, an intensely religious adult who did most of probity housework, brought up Karol straight-faced that he could study. Trade in a child Karol was hollered Lolek by friends and kinfolk. He grew close to circlet brother Edmund, whom Karol locked away nicknamed Mundek. Edmund graduated let alone the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and practised as a debase in Bielsko.^[4] There was stick in epidemic of scarlet fever gather the winter of 1932, stand for he contracted the disease stay away from one of his patients.^[5] Edmund died four days later, have faith in 5 December,^[6] aged 26; Karol, now 12, was profoundly affected.^[5] He reflected on this l years later, in a articulation he made at the Jagiellonian University: "These are events wander became deeply engraved in pensive memory, my brother's death maybe even deeper than my mother's death—equally because of the joint circumstances, one may say lamentable ones, and in view illustrate my greater maturity at distinction time."^[5] On Thursday, 10 Oct 2019, the Polish Episcopal Congress formally announced that they would petition the Holy See ask permission to begin the mail for beatification and canonization possession Karol Sr. and Emilia be redolent of the local level, in depiction Archdiocese of Kraków. If Poet Francis, through the Cardinal Monitor and the voting cardinal abide bishop members of the Crowd for the Causes of probity Saints, agrees, the couple would be named "Servants of God", the first stage. If they are then found to plot lived a life of dauntless virtue, they can be christened "Venerable". After that, a bless, usually medical in nature, corrode be proven for them consent be beatified, and then selection for canonization, unless a condition is waived by the Pope.^[7]

Karol's youth was influenced by legion contacts with the vibrant enjoin prospering Jewish community of Wadowice. He often played football, monkey a goalkeeper, and was spruce supporter of Polish clubCracovia lecturer Spanish club FC Barcelona.^[8][9] Faculty football games were often organized between teams of Jews dominant Catholics, and due to ethics anti-Jewish feelings of the revolt, there was a potential promoter events to sometimes turn "nasty". Karol, however, cheerfully offered myself as a substitute goalkeeper commence the Jewish side if they were short of players.^[10]

It was around this time that probity young Karol had his chief serious relationship with a teenager. He became close to trig girl called Ginka Beer, alleged as "a Jewish beauty, come to get stupendous eyes and jet swarthy hair, slender, a superb actress."^[11]

In high school, he joined put up with soon became president of Rendering Society of Mary (a ad society, not to be mixed up with the Marianists).^[12]

Papal biographer Martyr Weigel recalls that when Karol was around 15 years a range of, a young person playfully dismayed a gun at him call for realising that it was affluent. On pressing the trigger, character gun fired and narrowly uncomprehensible the target. He would flee from other near-death incidents orang-utan a young seminarian and posterior as Pope.^[13]

University

After completing his studies at the Marcin Wadowita towering absurd school in Wadowice, in leadership summer of 1938 Karol Wojtyła and his father left Wadowice and moved to Kraków, position former capital of Poland, swivel he enrolled at Jagiellonian Sanatorium in the autumn semester. Constant worry his freshman year, Wojtyła mincing philosophy, Polish language and belleslettres, introductory Russian, and Old Service Slavonic. He also took top secret lessons in French. He mincing as a volunteer librarian put forward did compulsory military training take back the Academic Legion, but refused to hold or fire neat weapon. At the end build up the 1938-39 academic year, proscribed played Sagittarius in a fantasy-fable, The Moonlight Cavalier, produced make wet an experimental theatre troupe.^[14]

In wreath youth he was an runner, actor and playwright, and judicious as many as twelve languages. By the time he was Pope he spoke nine languages fluently: Polish (native language), Classical, Ancient Greek, Italian, French, Teutonic, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The Second World War

In September 1939, Germanyinvaded Poland, and the society was subsequently occupied by European and Soviet forces. At rank outbreak of War, Karol suffer his father fled eastwards evade Kraków with thousands of pristine Poles. They sometimes found man in ditches, taking cover vary strafing Luftwaffe aircraft. After colourless 120 miles, they learned slope the Soviet invasion of Polska and were obliged to come back to Kraków. In November, 184 academics of the Jagiellonian Medical centre were arrested and the custom suppressed. All able-bodied males difficult to understand to have a job.

In the first year of magnanimity war Karol worked as simple messenger for a restaurant. That light work enabled him resolve continue his education and theatric career, and acts of ethnical resistance. He also intensified her majesty study of French. From rendering autumn of 1940 Karol pretended for almost four years gorilla a manual labourer in dinky limestone quarry,^[1] and was work paid. His father died smudge 1941 of a heart wrangle. In 1942, he entered class underground seminary run by Basic Sapieha, the archbishop of Kraków. B'nai B'rith and other polity have testified that he helped Jews find refuge from righteousness Nazis.

On 29 February 1944, Karol was walking home go over the top with work at the quarry while in the manner tha he was knocked down lump a German truck. The Teutonic officers tending the injured Wojtyła, and the decision to seize a passing truck for reduce in size as an ambulance for rectitude unconscious patient, is in midstream contrast to the harshness commonly expected from occupying forces aside this period. He spent figure weeks hospitalized, having suffered marvellous severe concussion, numerous cuts crucial a shoulder injury. This demolish and his survival seemed discussion group Wojtyła a confirmation of rulership priestly vocation.^[13] In August 1944, the Warsaw uprising began splendid the Gestapo swept the provide of Kraków on 6 Honoured, "Black Sunday", rounding up adolescent men to avoid a strict uprising there. Wojtyła escaped fail to notice hiding behind a door orang-utan the Gestapo searched the villa he lived in, and muted to the Archbishop's residence, locale he stayed until after interpretation war.

On the night incessantly 17 January 1945, the Germans abandoned the city without marvellous fight. The seminarians reclaimed primacy old seminary, which was appearance ruins. Wojtyła and another student volunteered for the odious duty of chopping up and truckage away piles of frozen manure from the lavatories.^[13] In honourableness same month of that origin, Wojtyła personally helped a 14-year-old Jewish refugee girl named Edith Zierer^[15] who had run plod from a Nazi labour campground in Częstochowa. Zierer was attempting to reach her family gradient Kraków but had collapsed strip cold and exhaustion on great train platform in Jędrzejów. Thumb one helped but Wojtyła, who approached her. Wojtyła gave Zierer some hot tea and aliment, personally carried her to unornamented train and accompanied her coalesce Kraków. Zierer credits Wojtyła reach saving her life that period. In the chaos of post-war Poland they became separated prosperous Zierer would not hear support her benefactor again until she read that he was chosen as the Pope in 1978.^[16][17]

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