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March 30, 2005
Don't confuse El Papa with La Papa
With the Pope's health failing, I've put together a few pics of El Papa's life in Krakow and Rome.
Karol Wojytla was born in 1920 in Wadowice, a city just outside Krakow. At age 18, he moved to Krakow and enrolled at Jagiellonian University, the large building shown below:
While enrolled at Jagiellonian, Karol lived in the house on the right in this photo. His apartment has been converted to a small museum, which contains his desk and skis (he apparently preferred Head brand.)
Karol's apartment was immediately below the Wawel Cathedral, a 14th century cathedral on a hill inhabited by people for 15,000 years. Several of Poland's kings are buried there, as is Thaddeusz Kosciuszko, the hero of the War for American Independence. It was in the crypt of this cathedral that the young Karol said his first mass. The picture is of the bones of prehistoric animals that hang at the doorway. As long as the bones remain, the cathedral is protected.
Here is a crowd on a Sunday in October last year gathering at San Pietro's Square in the Vatican City to hear the Pope bless the crowd. I took the picture from the top of St. Peter's Basillica.
Karol's light is still on (top center)...
Posted by adrianjo at March 30, 2005 07:25 PM
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