pope john paul ii

     

On January 27, 1999 he returned home aboard a TWA 767 designated Shepherd I

Trivia about pope john paul ii

  • A plaque in Monument Park honors this ex-"Cardinal" for a 1979 event held at the stadium
  • Cuba removed Christmas from its list of national holidays in 1969 & restored it in 1997 in anticipation of a visit by this man
  • On Nov. 20, 1994 he beatified 5 individuals, including Franciscan sculptor Claudio Granzotto
  • In June 1999 he made a return visit to his homeland
  • On May 13, 1981 a Turkish assailant made an assassination attempt on this man in the Vatican
  • He issued an encyclical on the fallacies of Marxism, materialism & atheism
  • In October 1979 he became the first pope to visit a president at the White House
  • On Feb. 2, 1986 this important religious leader met with the Dalai Lama in India
  • In May 1981 would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca shot this man in St. Peter's Square
  • As part of official millennium plans, this 79-year-old religious figure will travel to Jerusalem in March 2000
  • He canonized fellow Pole Faustina Kowalska
  • He made news April 13, 1986 when he visited Rome's main synagogue
  • (Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) As a reporter, I joined numerous heads of state & as many as 2 million people in Rome in 2005 for this man's funeral
  • In 1982 he became the first Pope in modern history to visit Sicily
  • Many consider him the 264th successor of St. Peter
  • On November 22, 2001 he personally sent his first e-mail, a message to Roman Catholics in Oceania
  • His first papal trip abroad was to Latin America in January 1979; in June he went home to Poland
  • He got a new car, the Lancia Jubilee, seen here with some of his Guards:
  • 1979:This religious figure makes his first official visit to the United States
  • His 129-country international travels ended in August 2004 with a trip to Lourdes
  • (Sarah reports from the cathedral in Lima, Peru.) On his visit to Latin America in 1985 he crowned this statue of the Virgin de la Evangelizacion here in Lima's cathedral
  • In April 2005 CNN reported that this man's funeral drew upwards of 2 million mourners
  • He issued the most recent Papal bull, "Incarnationis mysterium", "The mystery of the Incarnation", in 1988
  • Pope John XXIII was Man of the Year for 1962; this pope was Man of the Year for 1994
  • In September 1988 a storm forced his plane to land at Johannesburg, though it wasn't on his itinerary
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, AR.) Gifts to the President abound at the Library, like a mosaic of the Colosseum, given by this man, complete with his seal
  • On September 9, he became the 1st Pope to visit Canada when he arrived for a 12-day stay
  • This religious leader went home to Poland for a 13-day visit in June 1999
  • (Hi, I'm Tim Russert of NBC's Meet the Press.) In 1985 I supervised a broadcast from Rome featuring a live interview with this man, a first for American television
  • Just 8 days after his 2006 release, Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot this man in 1981, was sent back to prison
  • In 2007 this late pope was honored with a coin in nauru; his image pops up perpendicular to the coin
  • May 12, 1982 on a visit to the famous shrine in Fatima, Portugal
  • The first pope to visit a president in the White House was this man who met Jimmy Carter in 1979
  • Karol Wojtyla, made archbishop of Krakow in 1964, is better known by this name he took in 1978
  • This late, great Pole was fond of a pastry called Kremowka, about which he reminisced on his 1999 visit home
  • A religious visitor:Halo
  • He surprised many in 1996 when he told the Pontifical Academy of Science that evolution was no mere hypothesis
  • Growing up in Poland, he excelled in drama & sports, neither one a requirement for his becoming pope
  • On May 13, 1981 he had a close encounter with Mehmet Ali Agca in Rome; he would later visit Agca in prison