The Life Of John Paul II The Life Of John Paul II Before Being a PopeBefore Being a Pope

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• Biography of Karol Józef Wojtyla (John Paul II) when he was a child, and his family.

• His Hobbies and his studies.

• The life since a prisoner of the Nazis.

• His life when he was twelve.

• And the life when he was a priesthood.

Biography of Biography of Karol Józef WojtylaKarol Józef Wojtyla (John Paul II) when he was a child, (John Paul II) when he was a child,

and his family.and his family.• His name is Karol Józef

Wojtyla. He was born in wadowife(Poland), 18 May of 1920.

• When he was only eight years his mother was dead.

• He has got one brother (Edmund) and two sisters ( Olga and Karol), but Olga died before his birth.

His Hobbies And His Studies.His Hobbies And His Studies.

• As a youth, Wojtyła was an athlete and often played football as a goalkeeper; he was also a supporter of Polish club Cracovia Kraków.

• In the summer of 1938, Karol Wojtyła and his father left Wadowice and moved to Kraków, where he enrolled at the Jagiellonian University. While studying such topics as philology and various languages at the University, he worked as a volunteer librarian and was forced to do compulsory military training in the Academic Legion, but he refused to hold or fire a weapon.

The Life since A Prisoner Of The The Life since A Prisoner Of The Nazis.Nazis.

• In 1939, Nazi German occupation forces closed the Jagiellonian University after the invasion of Poland. All able-bodied males were required to work, and, from 1940 to 1944, Wojtyła variously worked as a messenger for a restaurant, a manual labourer in a limestone quarry, and for the Solvay chemical factory to avoid being deported to Germany. At twenty, I had already lost all the people I loved.

His Life When He Was TwelveHis Life When He Was Twelve

• He later started that he began thinking seriously about the priesthood after his father's death, and that his vocation gradually became ‘an inner fact of unquestionable and absolute clarity. In October 1942, increasingly aware of his calling to the priesthood, he knocked on the door of the Archbishops Palace in Kraków, and declared that he wanted to study for the priesthood.

The Life When He Was A The Life When He Was A PriesthoodPriesthood

• Karol Wojtyła as a priest in Niegowić, Poland, 1948.• On completion of his studies at the seminary in Kraków,

Karol Wojtyła was ordained as a priest on All Saints' Day, 1 November 1946, by the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Sapieha. In March 1949, he was transferred to the parish of Saint Florian in Kraków.. In 1954 he earned a second doctorate, in philosophy, evaluating the feasibility of a Catholic ethic based on the ethical system of phenomenologist Max Scheler. He also focused on creating original literary work during his first dozen years as a priest.

• In 1960, Wojtyła published the influential theological book Love and Responsibility, a defence of the traditional Church teachings on marriage from a new philosophical standpoint.