Juan pablo 2 biography summary

His mother died in His eldest brother Edmund, a doctor, died in and his father, a non-commissioned army officer died in A sister, Olga, had died before he was born. He was baptized on June 20, in the parish church of Wadowice by Fr. Franciszek Zak, made his First Holy Communion at age 9 and was confirmed at Upon graduation from Marcin Wadowita high school in Wadowice, he enrolled in Krakow's Jagiellonian University in and in a school for drama.

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The Nazi occupation forces closed the university in and young Karol had to work in a quarry and then in the Solvay chemical factory to earn his living and to avoid being deported to Germany. In , aware of his call to the priesthood, he began courses in the clandestine seminary of Krakow, run by Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha, archbishop of Krakow.

After the Second World War, he continued his studies in the major seminary of Krakow, once it had re-opened, and in the faculty of theology of the Jagiellonian University. He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Sapieha in Krakow on November 1, He finished his doctorate in theology in with a thesis on the subject of faith in the works of St.

At that time, during his vacations, he exercised his pastoral ministry among the Polish immigrants of France, Belgium and Holland.