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The Life of the Pontiff

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• April 4: Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo from Spain swings an incence burner as Pope John Paul II's body lies in state.
• April 10, 2003: Pope John Paul II releases a white dove in honor of peace in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.
• Jan. 1, 2000: John Paul II watches fireworks during the Millennium celebration at St. Peter's Square.
• Pope John Paul II was named Time's Man of the Year in 1994.
• Pope John Paul II meets with Mother Teresa in 1992.
• Sept. 10, 1987: The Pope walks with former President Ronald Reagan.
• Dec. 27, 1983: Pope John Paul II talks with Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who shot him in 1981.
• May 19, 1981: Pope John Paul II sits in his bed at the Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital in Rome, after he was shot.
• May 13, 1981: Pope John Paul II grimaces after he was shot and wounded by a Turkish student in St. Peter's Square.
• May 13, 1981: Mehmet Ali Agca aims a gun (far left) at Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square.
• May 13, 1981: A close-up shows Mehmet Ali Agca's hand aiming his gun at the Pope.
• Sept. 3, 1978: Pope John Paul I meets with Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, left, shortly before Pope John Paul I died.
• 1967: Pope Paul VI places the cardinal's hat on the head of Karol Wojtyla declaring him the Archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
• July 1939: A 19-year old Karol Wojtyla, later to become pope, second from right, at a military camp building in Ukraine.
• Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is seen at the age of 12 in Wadowice, Poland.