Karol Wojtyla, better known to many as "Pope John Paul II", was born in Wadowice, Poland, in 1920. After the death of Pope John Paul I in the "Three Popes Year" in 1978, he succeeded him at the head of the Roman Catholic Church chosen. As a young man he experienced dictatorships under the Nazi injustice regime of German-occupied Poland and later under the communist rule. His support for freedom efforts, especially in the countries of Eastern Europe, and his part in the fall of the so-called "Iron Curtain", which separated the Western European states from the Eastern bloc, was correspondingly great and passionate during the time of the so-called "Cold War".
Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) died in the Vatican in 2005 after a long illness.

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November 7, 2022

A statue was erected here in the Marienthal monastery in honor of Pope John Paul II. His term of office was from 1978 to 2005. He was born in Poland in 1920 and died in Rome at the age of 84.

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