A motherless boy from a communist state, John Paul II experienced personal and
political losses that inspired his fervent attachment to the ideal mother, the virgin Mary, the
embodiment of the motherland, and he did more than any pope in modern times to
revive her cult.
He made pilgrimages to Marian shrines of recent date, and was known to take a keen, sympathetic interest in Medjugorje, in former Yugoslavia, for example, where a series of visions were fiercely contested by the local clergy. The Fátima visions of 1917,
the year of the Bolshevik Revolution, developed into the focus of a vehement anti-communist crusade, and this pontiff carried with him, into the central authority of the Church, the beleaguered mentality of a community who looked for support from Mary’s modern apparitions and their prophecies.
His most ardent devotions were paid to Our Lady of Fátima,
who had prophesied the attempt on his life in 1981, it was widely believed, and saved him during the attack. He dedicated the bullet that was extracted from his body to her statue at Fátima, where it is embedded among the jewels in her crown.
In 1997, he proclaimed Mary as Co-Redemptrix with Christ
He made pilgrimages to Marian shrines of recent date, and was known to take a keen, sympathetic interest in Medjugorje, in former Yugoslavia, for example, where a series of visions were fiercely contested by the local clergy. The Fátima visions of 1917,
the year of the Bolshevik Revolution, developed into the focus of a vehement anti-communist crusade, and this pontiff carried with him, into the central authority of the Church, the beleaguered mentality of a community who looked for support from Mary’s modern apparitions and their prophecies.
His most ardent devotions were paid to Our Lady of Fátima,
who had prophesied the attempt on his life in 1981, it was widely believed, and saved him during the attack. He dedicated the bullet that was extracted from his body to her statue at Fátima, where it is embedded among the jewels in her crown.
In 1997, he proclaimed Mary as Co-Redemptrix with Christ
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