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Karol Wojtyła (18 July 1879 – 18 February 1941) was a Polish military officer who was a non-commissioned officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army and a lieutenant of the Polish Armed Forces' administration. He was the father and namesake of Karol Józef Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II in 1978, and the father of Polish doctor Edmund ...
Karol is a biography of Karol Wojtyła, later known as Pope John Paul II, beginning in 1939 when Karol was only 19 years old and ending at the 1978 papal election that made him Pope. The TV miniseries was initially to air in early April 2005 in the Vatican , but it was delayed due to the Pope's death.
Karol Józef Wojtyła (junior) was born on 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), born on 18 July 1879 in Lipnik (now part of Bielsko-Biała). He was a non-commissioned officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army and a captain in the Polish ...
The wedding portrait of John Paul II's parents, Emilia and Karol Wojtyła Sr. Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in the Polish town of Wadowice. [20] [21] He was the youngest of three children born to Karol Wojtyła (1879–1941), an ethnic Pole, and Emilia Kaczorowska (1884–1929), who was of distant Lithuanian heritage. [22]
In 1975, cardinal Karol Wojtyla, future Pope John Paul II, decided to transform it into a cathedral museum, where objects from the Wawel Cathedral would be kept and exposed. On 28 September 1978, on the 20th anniversary of the day he was anointed as bishop, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła ceremonially opened and blessed the Wawel Cathedral Museum ...
Karol Józef Wojtyła, Auxiliary Bishop of Kraków 1958–1963, Archbishop of Kraków 1963–1978, Pope John Paul II 1978–2005 Stefan Wyszyński , Primate of Poland, Cardinal, 1948–1981 Lawrence Wnuk , Protonotary apostolic , decorated Polish Canadian, (1908–2006)
Wojtyła, Karol (1993). Love and Responsibility. London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. ISBN 0-89870-445-6. Archived from the original on 11 February 2009; Wojtyła, Karol. Love and Responsibility on Google Books. Retrieved 15 October 2009. Wojtyła, Karol. Miłość i odpowiedzialność Love and Responsibility e-book in Polish. Retrieved 15 ...
He opened a clandestine seminary in an act of cultural resistance. Among the seminarians was Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II. [47] Wojtyla had been a member of the Rhapsodic Theatre, an underground resistance group, which sought to sustain Polish culture through forbidden readings of poetry and drama performances. [48]