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John Paul II timeline: from boyhood to sainthood
Compiled by Robert Strybel
MAY18, 1920: Emilia née Kaczorowska Wojtyla gives birth to a baby boy against the advice of her doctor who said the infant didn’t have a chance to survive and should be aborted.
JUNE 20, 1920: The Wojtyla baby is baptized at the Wadowice parish church and receives the name Karol (the Polish equivalent of Carl or Charles).
APRIL 19, 1929: Karol suffered his first major tragedy at the age of nine, when his mother died.
Right after the funeral, his father Lieutenant Karol Wojtyla senior, an army administrative official and devout Catholic, took him and his elder brother to the Marian shrine in nearby Kalwaria Zebrzydowska to pray for the repose of her soul.
SEPTEMBER 1930: Karol, known to his friends and classmates as Lolek, enrolled in the Wadowice middle school.
He did well in his studies, was good at