Today’s column is about memories. I have posted this before, on another anniversary of St. John Paul’s death, but felt compelled to do so again today as I sat in silence for a while to ponder the events of 15 years ago – the day the man people call John Paul the Great died – […]

via APRIL 2, 2005: A DAY, A MAN, A LIFE TO REMEMBER – A PRAYER FOR THE PANDEMIC IN UNION WITH JOHN PAUL II — Joan’s Rome

My paternal grandfather was actually friends with this man during their youth in Poland.

When this man had served as the Archbishop of Krakow, and as the news media the world over had covered him as the Archbishop of Krakow, prior to his election as Pope; my paternal grandfather had stated “he is a great man, and would make a wonderful Pope”.