Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II will be declared a saint on April 28, 2014, along with Pope John XXIII, in the first-ever joint canonization ceremony in Catholic Church history.
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Jean Paul II
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The pontiff visited Poland during his 2nd International Pastoral visit.
Maximilian Kolbe (1874-1941), a Polish Franciscan priest, founded in 1917 a devotional association, the Militia of Mary Immaculate. He was arrested by Gestapo in 1939, and again in 1941, and imprisoned in Auschwitz, where he gave his life in exchange for one of the condemned prisoners. He was canonized in 1982.
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The ceremony marking the beatification and the last stages of the process to elevate Pope John Paul II to sainthood was led by his successor Pope Benedict XI and attended by tens of thousands of pilgrims alongside heads of state and dignitaries.