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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)

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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