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On 12 May 1982, Fernández y Krohn assaulted Pope John Paul II with a bayonet in Fátima, Portugal, on the occasion of the Pope's pilgrimage to give thanks for his life being spared one year earlier at St. Peter's Square in the attack by the assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.
On 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square. The Pope was struck twice and suffered severe blood loss. Ağca was apprehended immediately and later sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court. The Pope forgave Ağca for the assassination ...
As Vatican City is a sacerdotal-monarchical state ruled by the Pope, who is the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church, its laws are influenced by Church teaching. Giovanni Battista Bugatti , executioner of the Papal States between 1796 and 1865, carried out 516 executions (Bugatti pictured offering snuff to a condemned prisoner in ...
A collection of popes have had violent deaths through the centuries. The circumstances have ranged from martyrdom (Pope Stephen I) to war (Lucius II), to an alleged beating by a jealous husband (Pope John XII). A number of other popes have died under circumstances that some believe to be murder, but for which definitive evidence has not been found. Martyr popes This list is incomplete ; you ...
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They planned to assassinate Pope John Paul II; blow up 11 airliners in flight from Asia to the United States, with the goal of killing approximately 4,000 passengers and shutting down air travel around the world; and crash a plane into the headquarters of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. [1] [2]
Kenneth Frye, who was 24 at the time of Pope's death, is now being charged with burglary of a state liquor store, during a rash of lootings that broke out in Philadelphia on Sept. 26.
Francesco Pretolani, hanged and quartered in Viterbo, convicted of robbing and killing an innkeeper and his wife (February 21, 1801). Giovanni Fabrini, hanged at Piazza del Popolo, convicted of murder in time of peace (June 6, 1801). Domenico Treca, hanged in Subiaco, convicted of killing his wife, a priest and another person (July 4, 1801).