John Paul Thesis

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Throughout history many great people have come and went, however one man sticks out. St. John Paul II was born in Wadowice, Poland and was the youngest of three children, his original name being Karol Józef Wojtyła. In his town he grew up with a mix of Jewish and Catholic people. There were never really any feuds between the two groups, only a couple classmates John Paul just did not particularly like. John Paul was a stellar student and while he studied at Jagiellonian University was fluent in almost 12 foreign languages. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939 the university was closed so John Paul worked as a messenger for a restaurant, a manual laborer in a limestone quarry, and in a chemical factory. It was not until after his father’s death