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4 days ago · Karol Józef Wojtyla, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in the Polish town of Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometers from Krakow, on May 18, 1920. He was ...
5 days ago · John Paul II made teaching and spreading Divine Mercy a keystone of his pontificate. Joseph Pronechen, April 16, 2023. St. John Paul II is truly called the “Mercy Pope.”. He beatified and then canonized St. Faustina Kowalska, who had received the message of Divine Mercy which later spread throughout the world.
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5 days ago · John XXIII and John Paul II are the 81st and 82nd popes canonized since Saint Peter. Over 2,000 years, nearly a third of the bishops of Rome have been declared saints. However, the overwhelming ...
4 days ago · 1. Where was St. Paul from? In Acts 21:39, St. Paul states: I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city. Tarsus was the capital city of the Roman province of Cilicia. This is on the southeast coast of modern Turkey, so St. Paul was not from the Holy Land. He was actually a Jew born in what is now Turkey.
1 day ago · Paul's Jewish name was "Saul" (Hebrew: שָׁאוּל, Modern: Sha'ûl, Tiberian: Šā'ûl), perhaps after the biblical King Saul, the first king of Israel and, like Paul, a member of the Tribe of Benjamin; the Latin name Paulus, meaning small, was not a result of his conversion as is commonly believed but a second name for use in communicating ...
5 days ago · The Roman Catholic church sold that property to Main Line Health in 2019 and the seminary has since relocated to Gwynedd Mercy University's campus. Pope John Paul II stands at the altar as he ...
4 days ago · Saint Paul, Apostle of the City of Rome. 29 June. Saint Paul, Post-Byzantine Greek school (© Musei Vaticani) A Jew of Tarsus, in modern-day Turkey, Saul, a Roman citizen, educated at the Jewish school in Jerusalem, had also a good Greek-Hellenistic formation: he knew Greek and Latin. The son of a curtain weaver, he also learned his father's craft.
