John Paul II
John Paul II
This is a draft from a bigger article about life of John Paul II.
At present we are completing the biography :
Wadowice :
1920 May - 18th birth in house Market Square 2 , flat 4 (nowadays ul.Kościelna 4)
1920 June - 20th baptizing in church of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
1926 -1930 - four classes of elementary school for boys (now building of Town Council)
1929 April - dies his mother
1930 -1938 - seven classes of secondary school for boys at Marcin Wadowita Gimnasium
during the shool years they used to eat the famous cake
1932 December 4th - dies his brother Edmund
1938 May 14th - high school finals ( matura)
1938 June 20th - July 17th - serves in the 7th Battalion of the 9th Company of Young
Men’s Brigade in Zubrzyca Górna
1938 Summer - together with his father moves to Cracow
Cracow :
1938 -1944 - lives at Tyniecka Street 10
1938 September - begins studies of Polish Literature (Faculty of Philosophy) at
Jagiellonian University (UJ)
1939 November - Germans arrest the professors of the Jagiellonian University,
the liquidation
1939 -1946 - during the war Wojtyla attends the ‘underground’ university
led by remain UJ teachers
1940 - 1944 - a worker for ‘Solvay’ chemical plant
1941 February 17th - dies his father
1942 -1946 - a seminarist of the conspirational Seminary of the Archdiocese of Cracow
1946 November 1st - ordained a priest
1946 November 2nd - first mass service in St.Leonard’s crypt , Wawel Cathedral
1946 November 3rd - first public ‘primate’ mass service in salesians church
of st.Stanisław Kostka , Dębniki
1946 -1948 - study at Papal ‘Angelicum’ in Rome
1948 July 28th - 1949 March assistant pastor at Niegowić
( a small village near Cracow)
1948 December 16th doctor of theology at Jagiellonian University
1949 - 1951 - assistant pastor at St.Florian church in Cracow
1951 - moved to St.Catherine church, works with youths
1953 December 3rd - becomes assistant-professor of ethics and moral theology at UJ
1954-1978 - lectures and seminars at Lublin Catholic Univerity
1958 September 28th - bishop’s consecration
1964 January 18th - becomes the Cracow Metropolitan Archbishop
1964 March 8th - ingress to the Wawel Archicathedral
1967 June 28th - member of College of Cardinals
1978 October 16th - becomes the Pope John Paul II
Rome:
seven pilgrimages to Poland
1979 June
1983 June
1987 June
1991 August
1997 June
1999 June
2002 August
an excellent biography by foreign writers Jane Barney and Helen Whitney