Lider carismatico juan pablo ii biography

BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE

JOHN PAUL II
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Karol Józef Wojty&#x;a, elected Pope on 16 October , was born in Wadowice, Poland, on 18 May

He was the third of three children born to Karol Wojty&#x;a and Emilia Kaczorowska, who died in His elder brother Edmund, a physician, died in , and his father, Karol, a non-commissioned officer in the army, died in

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

When the occupying Nazi forces closed the University in , Karol worked () 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 in the clandestine major seminary of Krakow, directed by the Archbishop Adam Stefan Sapieha.

During that time, he was one of the organizers of the "Rhapsodic The