The autobiography of pope john paul ii

The definitive biography of Pope John Paul II that explores how influential he was on the world stage and in some of the most historic events of the twentieth.

A definitive portrait of the Catholic pontiff follows his prewar childhood and youth in Nazi-occupied Poland, decision to become a priest, rise to cardinal.

Autobiografia / Autobiography is John Paul II's personal account of his own life, an extraordinary story about human destiny, its sudden shifts.

John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century, as well as the third-longest-serving pope in history after Pius IX and St.

This biography tells the story of John Paul II's life and work, from his childhood in Poland to his election as the first Catholic pope in over a thousand years.

Autobiografia / Autobiography is John Paul II's personal account of his own life, an extraordinary story about human destiny, its sudden shifts.!

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.

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