Nickname:	The Pilgrim Pope
Known for:	The Papal Chase, The Jeweller's Shop, Our God's Brother
Birth name:	Karol Wojtyla
Birthday:	18 May 1920, Wadowice, Poland
Height:	5' 10" (1.78 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Beloved Northern Irish comedian FRANK CARSON has died, aged 85.The funnyman became a national treasure after winning U.K. talent show Opportunity Knocks in the 1960s. He was a TV regular on hit shows The Comedians, The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club and Tiswas.In 1987, Pope John Paul II knighted Carson into the order of St
AFP - Late pope John Paul II's coffin was laid to rest on Monday in Saint Peter's basilica near the famous Pieta statue by Michelangelo, a day after the ceremony that put him on the path to sainthood.
Late pontiff POPE JOHN PAUL II has been beatified by his successor.Pope Benedict XVI celebrated the life of the last Pope during a service in St. Peter’s Square, Rome on Sunday morning (01May11).The beatification is the first step in Pope John Paul II’s bid to become a saint.His successor told the thousands who had gathered
AFP - The process leading to sainthood for late Polish pope John Paul II has recently been accelerated, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said on Saturday after talks with Pope Benedict XVI.
AFP - Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who attempted to kill pope John Paul II in 1981, was on Monday freed from prison after almost three decades behind bars, but the motive for his attack remains shrouded in mystery.
AFP - The Turk who tried to kill pope John Paul II in 1981, Mehmet Ali Agca, was released from prison Monday after almost three decades behind bars, but immediately faced authorities over his status as a draft dodger.
AFP - The Turk who tried to kill pope John Paul II in 1981, Mehmet Ali Agca, was released from prison Monday after almost three decades behind bars, but immediately faced authorities over his status as a draft dodger.
Internationally-acclaimed photojournalist GIANNI GIANSANTI, a longtime photographer of the late Pope John Paul II, has lost his battle with bone cancer. He was 52.Giansanti, who captured still images of world leaders and fashion designers on his lens for nearly three decades, died on Wednesday (18Mar09) in Rome, Italy.His career launched in 1978, when his photograph
AP - When Placido Domingo and his son, Placido Domingo Jr., set about to put the poems of the late Pope John Paul II to music, they discovered several religious passages, already translated from his native Polish to Italian, that would have made beautiful songs.
Legendary tenor PLACIDO DOMINGO has teamed up with JOSH GROBAN, VANESSA WILLIAMS and ANDREA BOCELLI to record a new album of songs based on poems written by the late POPE JOHN PAUL II.The pontiff’s original Polish poems, written before his election in 1978, have been translated into English, Spanish and Italian and put to music
Reuters - The late Pope John Paul II was wounded by a knife-wielding priest in 1982, a year after he was shot in St Peter's Square, but the injury was kept secret, his former top aide says in a documentary film.
Reuters - Singer Sinead O'Connor, who once inflamed Catholic sensibilities when she ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II, hopes a new batch of psalm-based songs will cast off the brash, shaven-headed image accorded her 20 years ago.

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