![]() ![]() In 1942, aware of his call to the priesthood, he began courses in the clandestine seminary of Cracow, run by Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha, archbishop of Cracow. The Nazi occupation forces closed the university in 1939 and young Karol had to work in a quarry (1940-1944) and then in the Solvay chemical factory to earn his living and to avoid being deported to Germany. Upon graduation from Marcin Wadowita high school in Wadowice, he enrolled in Cracow's Jagiellonian University in 1938 and in a school for drama. ![]() He made his First Holy Communion at age 9 and was confirmed at 18. ![]() His eldest brother Edmund, a doctor, died in 1932 and his father, a non-commissioned army officer died in 1941. He was the second of two sons born to Karol Wojtyla and Emilia Kaczorowska. Wojtyla, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometres from Cracow, on May 18, 1920. ![]()
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