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Pope John Paul II - Birth

Time: Tuesday May 18, 1920

Place: Wadowice, Poland

Details: Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in the Polish town of Wadowice. He was the youngest of three children born to Karol Wojtyła (1879–1941), an ethnic Pole, and Emilia Kaczorowska (1884–1929), whose mother's maiden surname was Scholz.

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