Jp2 shrine biography of john paul ii catholic school

His mother died of a heart attack and kidney failure when he was just eight years old. As a boy, he was very athletic and in particular, enjoyed playing football as a goalkeeper.

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In , he and his father left his birth town of Wadowice and moved to Krakow where he enrolled at the Jagiellonian University, studying philology and various languages. While he was required to participate in compulsory military training during this time, he refused to fire a weapon. During his studies, he also learned as many as 15 languages.

He earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology in and passed his doctoral exam in During his time at the university, he visited Padre Pio for confession and was told he would ascend to the highest post in the Church. He was then transferred to the parish of Saint Florian in Krakow and taught ethics at Jagiellonian University and subsequently at the Catholic University of Lublin.

The Faculty of Theology at the Jagiellonian University was also shut down. He received episcopal consecration on 28 September and was the youngest bishop in Poland at 38 years old. He became temporary administrator of the Archdiocese in following the death of Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak.