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	Wadowice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wadowice is a town in southern Poland, 50km from Krakow with 19,500 inhabitants (2001), situated on the Skawa river, confluence of Vistula, in the eastern part of Silesian Plateau (Pogórze Ślaskie).
		Wadowice is famous as the birthplace of Pope John Paul II (1920).
		In 1920 Karol Wojtyła was born in Wadowice (later known as the bishop of Kraków and Pope John Paul II).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wadowice (1089 words)

	Wadowice -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wadowice is famous as the birthplace of (The head of the Roman Catholic Church) Pope (The first Pope born in Poland (born in 1920)) John Paul II (1920).
		The first permanent settlement in the area of today's Wadowice was founded in late (Click link for more info and facts about 10th century) 10th century or early (Click link for more info and facts about 11th century) 11th century.
		In 1920 Karol Wojtyła was born in Wadowice (later known as the bishop of (An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula) Kraków and Pope (The first Pope born in Poland (born in 1920)) John Paul II).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/wadowice.htm (1406 words)

	Biography of Pope John Paul II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karol Józef Wojtyła was born on 18 May 1920 in Wadowice in southern Poland, son of a former officer in the Austrian Habsburg army whose name was also Karol Wojtyła, and Emilia Kaczorowska.
		According to popular Wadowice legend, Emilia used to tell fellow townsfolk that her Karol would be "a great man one day." As a child Karol was called Lolek by friends and family.
		In Poland, Catholics gathered at the church at Wadowice, the birthplace of the pontiff.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biography_of_Pope_John_Paul_II (5378 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Thousands gather in Pope's hometown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WADOWICE, Poland -- Residents of Pope John Paul II's hometown gathered in cold, wet weather Thursday for an outdoor Mass in the central square that bears his name, praying for his health as they celebrated a quarter-century of his papacy.
		About 4,000 worshippers listened as the bishop of nearby Krakow, Kazimierz Nycz, held up the young Karol Wojtyla, who was born in Wadowice and graduated from the local high school, as a role model for today's youth.
		Wadowice's town council planned to send congratulations to the pope during a special meeting later Thursday, and residents scheduled an evening concert and fireworks.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2003/10/16/thousands_gather_in_popes_hometown (569 words)

	A Vigil Of Hope For Beloved Compatriot (washingtonpost.com)
		WADOWICE, Poland, April 1 -- Hundreds of people in this small, southern Polish town prayed and kept a hopeful vigil Friday at the 500-year-old church where Karol Wojtyla was baptized, remembering their personal encounters with perhaps the most famous Pole in history.
		Next door, draped over the three-story Wadowice city hall, is an even larger banner featuring photos of John Paul II as an infant, a young boy, a priest and, finally, as the Holy Father.
		Many in Wadowice and throughout the country credit him with playing a singular role in freeing the country from Soviet domination and for giving democracy-minded Poles hope during a dark period in their history.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A19630-2005Apr1.html (970 words)

	Encyclopedia: Wadowice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Powiat is the Polish name for county, a second-level unit of the administrative division and local government in Poland.
		For other meanings of Home Army see: Home Army (disambiguation) The Armia Krajowa or AK (Home Army) functioned as the pre-eminent underground military organization in German-occupied Poland, which functioned in all areas of the country from September 1939 until its disbanding in January 1945.
		May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wadowice (4062 words)

	Pope John Paul II Praises Mother of God , Gift of Life, in Wadowice, Poland
		With these words I greet all the people of Wadowice, from the elderly, to whom I am linked by the bonds of childhood and adolescence, to the children, who are seeing for the first time the Pope who has come to visit them.
		With profound veneration I also embrace the threshold of the house of God, the parish church of Wadowice, and in it the Baptistery, in which I was joined to Christ and received into the community of his Church.
		Over the last hundred years the people of Wadowice expressed this in a special way when they gathered to venerate the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and made her the Patron of their personal, family and social life.
	www.priestsforlife.org /magisterium/99-06-16popeinpoland.html (1759 words)

	- Welcome to the Tablet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WHEN Karol Wojtyla returned to Wadowice last June at the age of 79 for the third time since he became Pope, it was an emotional occasion for him.
		This was home until he moved away from Wadowice at the age of 18 in the summer of 1938.
		Did it never occur to anyone in Wadowice to contact my family and ask their opinion when it came to dedicating the house to the Pope?" "At the time we thought the family were all dead."
	www.thetablet.co.uk /cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00315 (1647 words)

	ABC News: Poles Offer Prayers for Ailing Pope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WADOWICE, Poland Feb 2, 2005 —; People in Pope John Paul II's Polish hometown prayed Wednesday for their most famous son as coverage of his hospitalization dominated front pages and airwaves.
		With the intense media focus, prayers for the pontiff's recovery were held at churches in Warsaw, Krakow and at the private chapel of Poland's Roman Catholic primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp.
		In Wadowice, a town of 20,000 people, prayers were offered at St. Mary's church, where the young Karol Wojtyla was baptized and attended Mass years before he became a priest.
	abcnews.go.com /Health/wireStory?id=463918 (328 words)

	The neighbourhood of the school (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mucharz village and its administrative area (Gmina Mucharz) belongs to the district of Wadowice (Powiat Wadowicki), in the region of Lesser Poland (Małopolska).
		It boarders the “Gmina” of Zambrzyce (the Sucha Beskidzka District), the “Gmina“ Stryszów and the district of Wadowice.
		The village has good communications with other parts of the region; it is situated in the vicinity of the 98 Moad from Wadowice to Sucha Beskidzka and the railway line connecting Cracow and Zakopane (the Skawce Railway Station).
	republika.pl /gimmuch/englisch2.htm (161 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Flying the Coop
		The escape of 26-year-old Ryszard Niemczyk from Wadowice prison Oct. 29 is the greatest embarrassment for the Polish penitentiary system in recent years.
		One prison employee commented ironically that Wadowice prison boasts one of the best body-building gyms in town, and prisoners are eager to exercise.
		In August, two burglars waiting for sentences in petty larceny cases made a small hole in the wall of their cell, crawled into the court house through the opening and then went out into the street unnoticed.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/1438 (859 words)

	Wadowice remembers its greatest native son - baltimoresun.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WADOWICE, Poland -- Pope John Paul II may have helped hasten the end of communism here, eased centuries of tensions between Catholics and Jews and campaigned for human rights.
		But to the people of Wadowice, all that mattered yesterday was that he was first and foremost a son of their city.
		Now, in small towns like Wadowice as well as the major cities, people are losing allegiance to their faith.
	www.baltimoresun.com /sports/football/bal-te.poland04apr04,0,6391709.story (1018 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Pope delights Poles over anniversary address (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tens of thousands of Poles in Wadowice, John Paul's home town, and three other outdoor venues braved a chilly October evening with song and prayer for the pope, widely regarded as Poland's greatest son.
		To many in Wadowice, a provincial town of 20,000 in hilly southern Poland, the memories of the Pope's election 25 years ago are still fresh.
		Jozef Stopa, who first met Wojtyla in the 1960s, was in a Wadowice church where the future pope used to be an altar boy when he heard the news.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/453BC16E-D9B6-44DB-9532-40D0A147720A.htm (466 words)

	Poles Greet Pope's Election With Optimism - WTOP Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Another Wadowice resident, a 24-year old university graduate, was more cautious, saying it would be difficult for Ratzinger to be a successor to the charismatic John Paul II.
		Father Jakub Gil, parish priest at Wadowice's Saint Mary's basilica where John Paul II was baptized and prayed as a boy, said the cardinals' quick decision meant Ratzinger was the right choice.
		"Wadowice is very close to John Paul II, and in the name of this affection we accept the new pope with a warm heart and reverence as someone who represents Christ," Gil said.
	www.wtopnews.com /index.php?nid=432&sid=462686 (406 words)

	ABC News: Poles Pray for Most Famous Native Son (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WADOWICE, Poland Apr 2, 2005 —; Poles prayed for Pope John Paul II on Saturday with grief over their beloved native son's approaching death mixed with a wish to see an end to his long and public suffering.
		Now, "we are very sad for him and all the church because we believe it is a very big loss for the church," she said.
		Mary's in Wadowice stayed open overnight as people flocked from around Poland and outside the country to the pope's hometown to pay their respects.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=635194 (437 words)

	frontline: john paul II - the millennial pope: john paul II - his life and papacy \| PBS
		Eugeniusz Mroz, one of the pope's Wadowice classmates, remembers that "after the death of his wife, Karol's father devoted himself solely to his son's upbringing...His father was sewing, washing, and cooking, being Karol's mother, father, friend and colleague." The boy returned his father's devotion.
		In truth, the Wadowice of his childhood was a model of Polish anti-Semitism as well as offering him examples of cooperation.
		The Wadowice Synagogue was near Karol's high school, and he watched with fascination as the Jews walked by during his classes.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pope/etc/bio.html (7634 words)

	In pope's home town, local residents 'bear the burdens of loss'
		WADOWICE, Poland (CNS) -- The rector of the main basilica in Pope John Paul II's home town has urged residents to be "strong with hope and faith" in order to "bear the burdens of loss" after the pope's death.
		A 12-year-old boy at Wadowice's secondary school said he and his friends were all "very sad" and that they had attended church several times since news of the pope's death.
		Rzeczpospolita said many Wadowice inhabitants had recalled their last pilgrimage to Rome in March, adding that the pope's last public words in Polish from his clinic window had been "witam Wadowice" ("welcome Wadowice").
	www.americancatholic.org /Features/JohnPaulII/HomeTown.asp (658 words)

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		Karol Józef Wojtyła, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in the Polish town of Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometers from Krakow, on May 18, 1920.
		He was baptized on June 20, 1920 in the parish church of Wadowice by Fr.
		Upon graduation from Marcin Wadowita high school in Wadowice, he enrolled in Krakow's Jagiellonian University in 1938 and in a school for drama.
	www.vatican.va /news_services/press/documentazione/documents/santopadre_biografie/giovanni_paolo_ii_biografia_breve_en.html (1288 words)

	CNN.com Special Report
		Karol Jozef Wojtyla was born in Wadowice, Poland, in 1920.
		Friends in Wadowice, a town of 8,000 Catholics and 2,000 Jews 35 miles southwest of Krakow, called Wojtyla "Lolek." He was born in 1920, the second son of Karol Wojtyla (pronounced voy-TIH-wah) Sr., a retired army officer and tailor, and Emilia Kaczorowska Wojtyla, a schoolteacher of Lithuanian descent.
		But in the predominantly Catholic town of Wadowice, the Jewish population was small.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2005/pope/stories/bio1 (946 words)

	Hell's Angel of Zygodowice
		The other unusual thing about Wadowice is that the local museum (Muzeum Ziemi Wadowickiej) hosts the most professional exhibition dedicated to a US crew shot down over Poland in WW2.
		The rememberance was revived thanks to Zygmunt Kraus, who organised the exhibition in Wadowice and initiated the erection of a memorial in 1991 at the crash site.
		The memorabilia at the Wadowice exhibition are exceptional.
	www.samoloty.ow.pl /str317a.htm (1447 words)

	Worry over pope's health mars celebration in Poland
		WADOWICE, Poland -- The little town of Wadowice is bracing for the change in seasons.
		John Paul's story is felt especially personally in Wadowice, where he grew up, and in Krakow, where he served as priest and bishop before his elevation to the papacy.
		On Thursday, Wadowice will hold an open-air mass, a 5-kilometer run starting from the pope's childhood home, then a folk-rock concert and fireworks show that will be beamed via satellite to Krakow and the Vatican.
	www.freep.com /news/nw/pope13_20031013.htm (1076 words)

	:ICE: Insight Central Europe
		In 1978 few if anyone realised they were seeing the beginning of a twenty-six year long papacy that was to transform the Church, inspire a revolution leading to the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the establishment of dialogue between Christians and Jews.
		Grief stricken faithful gathered in front of the house in Wadowice, southern Poland, where the Pope was born, to pay tribute to their beloved Pontiff with wreaths, flowers and song, after his death on April 2, 2005.
		Wadowice before the war was a tiny town with a mixed Polish-Jewish population.
	incentraleurope.radio.cz /ice/issue/65241 (4471 words)

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