The longtime private secretary of the late Pope John Paul II revealed in a film screened Thursday that the pope was lightly wounded in a 1982 knife attack by a priest in Portugal.
Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz made the revelation in “Testimony,” a movie on John Paul’s life that was screened for Pope Benedict XVI and top clergy at the Vatican.
It was known that John Paul was assaulted by a knife-wielding Spanish priest while visiting the shrine of Fatima in Portugal to give thanks for surviving an assassination attempt. He when he was shot by a Turkish gunman in St. Peter’s Square in 1981.
“Today I can say what up to now we have kept secret,” Dziwisz said in the movie. “That priest wounded the Holy Father.”
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Film reveals Pope John Paul II wounded in '82 stabbing
The longtime private secretary of the late Pope John Paul II revealed in a film screened Thursday that the pope was lightly wounded in a 1982 knife attack by a priest in Portugal.
Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz made the revelation in “Testimony,” a movie on John Paul’s life that was screened for Pope Benedict XVI and top clergy at the Vatican.
It was known that John Paul was assaulted by a knife-wielding Spanish priest while visiting the shrine of Fatima in Portugal to give thanks for surviving an assassination attempt. He when he was shot by a Turkish gunman in St. Peter’s Square in 1981.
“Today I can say what up to now we have kept secret,” Dziwisz said in the movie. “That priest wounded the Holy Father.”
Read it all.