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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Pope John Paul II
Born: May 18, 1920
Died: April 2, 2005 (aged 84)
Bio: Pope Saint John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, was Pope from 1978 to 2005. He is widely known to Catholics as Saint John Paul the Great, especially in the names of institutions.
Known for:
- Crossing the Threshold of Hope (1994)
- Love and Responsibility (1960)
- Memory and Identity (2005)
- Evangelium vitae (1995)
- Fides et ratio (1998)
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