Twenty years ago, on April 2, 2005, when the news of the death of John Paul II was announced to many people around the world, not only for Catholics, time stopped. Because the Pope, who It was the first or the only one in many domains And that brought people to church, he had died. To commemorate the anniversary of his death, a special mass was held in the Vatican, with the presence of the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Born in Wadowice, Karol Wojtyla was the first non -Italian Pope in several hundred years. It was the first enamel to sit on the throne of San Pedro. He was also the first to devote himself to representation in his youth.
The Pope who travels and Creator’s tendency
He was also the first to make the pilgrimage his brand image. Throughout his pontificate, Juan Pablo II visited about one hundred thirty countries one or more times. In all his trips abroad, he traveled more than 1,247,000 km, which is equivalent to taking more than thirty laps to the earth.
On his first visit, he moved to the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Bahamas.
The most frequent visit was to his homeland, Poland, nine times. He visited the United States and France seven times, Mexico and Spain five times each. The masses and meetings with him were assisted by millions of people: in 1995, about five million faithful attended the Mass in Manila.
Meetings with young people were important to him and gave Home of the World Cups DayAn event that continues to this day. His dialogues with young people, who, during his visits to Krakow, were still in front of the Archbishop Palace, under the famous Pope’s window.
It was one of the youngest potatoes When his mission began: he was 58 years old. His pontificate was the second longest in the history of the papacy, not to mention San Pedro, lasted twenty -seven years. Only Pío IX had a long, thirty -one years.
During these years, among other things, Promulgated encyclical fourteen, forty -three apostolic letters, beatified by more than one thousand three hundred blessed and canonized more than four hundred seventy saints. Nor forgot his literary works; One of his last books was the Roman Triptic.
He spoke seven languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian and Latin, which facilitated direct interaction with people.
He was the first Pope in Meet at the head of the Anglican ChurchQueen Elizabeth II. He entered into dialogue not only with other Christian denominations, but also with Islam and Judaism.
He was involved in the policy that gave his first pilgrimage to Poland still communist, he found, among other things, with the faithful in Warsaw, appealing to the Poles: “That your spirit descends and renewed the face of this earth.” Many believe that the beginning of their pontificate was one of the impulses for the creation of solidarity.
Along with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, contributed to the overthrow of communism. In his last years, he said that Europe needed two lungs, that is, an oriental part and a western part. He defended the adhesion of Poland and other countries of the Old East Block to the European Union.
He was also the first to talk about ecology, describing the destruction of nature as a sin.
In 1981, he survived an attack on his life and was severely shot, which affected his health and state. A few years later, he visited the murderer Mehmet Ali Agka, who was in prison, and forgave him.
ADVERTISINGPoles remember that in young people, he loved a dessert. He mentioned it in his hometown, Wadowice, at a meeting with the faithful in 1999: “After finishing high school, we used to go to eat cream cakes,” he said and a few days later, the popular cake cream in Poland won the nickname “papal.”
21:37
On April 2, 2005, millions of faithful followed the news about the deterioration of their health. When, at 21:37, Vatican’s employees announced their death, many people cried. In Poland, there was a national reconciliation, whose most symbolic image was the reconciliation of two Krakow football clubs that were hated: crack (which the Pope was adept) and Wisła Kraków.
The television stations did not broadcast advertisements for several days and most cultural and sports events were canceled. The national duel was introduced in Poland and dozens of other countries.
ADVERTISINGThe documentary “21:37” by Mariusz Pilis, who debuted these days, deals with these moments. “It is a story about 21:38 and what happened in Poland after the death of the Pope. A phenomenon that lasted a few days, in which we ceased to be common citizens and become a mental community, disputes that have been extinguished. Since the perspective of the years, I wanted to tell the story through ordinary people and their memories. To Euronws. Unusual for documentaries.
In addition, concerts, masses and exhibitions are planned within the birthday. And it is not only in Poland. In Rome, for example, a Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof music concert is planned, whose fifth anniversary of death has recently passed.
In 2011, John Paul II was proclaimed Blessed and in 2014 the canonization process was completed.
