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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]
Karol: The Pope, The Man is a 2006 TV miniseries directed by Giacomo Battiato chronicling Pope John Paul II's life as pope in flashbacks. [1] It covers the period of his life from the October 22, 1978 papal inauguration to his death in 2005.
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 following is a list of books written by John Paul II both before and after becoming pope, although pre-papacy his name was Karol Wojtyla. [1] Questio de fide apud S. Joannem a Cruce (The Question of Faith according to St. John of the Cross). Warsaw: Collectanea Theologica. 1950.
Pope John Paul II is a 2005 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła) from his early adult years in Poland to his death at age 84. The miniseries was written and directed by John Kent Harrison and aired in the United States on the CBS network on December 4 and 7, 2005.
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.
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Cary Elwes portrays Karol Wojtyla in his adult years prior to being elected Pope on 16 October 1978, and Academy Award winner and multiple Golden Globe Award winner Jon Voight portrays him during his extraordinary 26 1/2-year reign that ended with his death on 2 April 2005. It was approved and blessed by Pope Benedict XVI.