A Life Story from Stone Quarry to Vatican

After When Nazis closed Cracovia University, where he was studying in 1939, Karol Josef Wojtlyahe worked in a stone quarry and a chemical works to earn his for living. Though he was interested in theatre, Wojtlya began to experience a calling to the priesthood, and so began attending illegal seminars on the topic. Feeling intuitions that he was called as Priest, he followed the seminars on these issues illegally and meantime he was interested a bit in theatre. The yYoung th Karol continued thecontinued training for the priesthood courses after the war, and was assigned as a priest in 1946. The priest Pope undertook theological studiesmade some study on theology and worked for various duties in Poland, also and then attendeding the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965. as well. Wojtlya was elected as the 264th Pope of the Catholic World in 1978 when he was 58 years old. The Pope made his first overseas abroad journey in 1979 when he traveled to Mexicoto Mexico in 1979. He also came to Istanbul in came over to Istanbul on his 4th visit on October of the same year, where he and met with Patriarch Dimitrios the 1st. The Pope was the targeted of an attempted assassination by Mehmet Ali Agca’s shooting on May 13th 1981, but survived unas injured. To date, no light has been shed on this matter.; however no light has not been shed on the assassination yet.

Pope Jean Paul II He gave special importance to the youth issues and in 1987, began started to organize days celebrating youth. youth hood days since from 1987. The Pope strived to at establishing a sense of unity between the Catholic Church and other with othercChristian churches. In an endeavour to demonstrate his desire for and initiate He signed for the first time an ecumenical card in order to show an endeavor for the sake of establishing a common future for the Christians of Europe, Pope Jean Paul II was the first to sign an ecumenical card. However despite all his repeated requests insistent demands, the Pope was never able to go tocould not go to Moscow, due to the opposition ofbecause of the city’s Moscow Patriarch Alexis II’s opposition. The Pope showed perhaps thethe greatest interest in establishing on behalf of dialogue with to the Jewish communitys, whom he described as ‘our elder brothers’. The Pope had formally apologized numerous times for many times from Jews for the wrongdoings of the Catholic Church against the Jewish community and created was recorded in the history when he visited a after his visit to synagogue in Rome. John Paul II the 2nd wasis the first pPope in history to visit a mosquevisiting a mosque and kissing a Koran. in the history. John Paul IIthe 2nd is the Pope who officially recognized Israel.