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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">via <a href="http://www.americanpapist.com/blog.html" target="_blank">American Papist: Not Your Average Catholic!</a> by Thomas Peters on 10/15/08</div><br>
<div align="justify">A revelation in a new documentary film which includes interviews with the late Pontiff's secretary Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz:</div><blockquote><p align="justify">The late Pope John Paul was wounded by a knife-wielding priest in 1982, a year after he was shot in St Peter's Square, but the injury was kept secret, his former top aide says in a documentary film.<br>
<br>On May 12, 1982, the pope was visiting the shrine city of Fatima in Portugal to give thanks for surviving a first assassination attempt a year earlier on May 13, 1981, when he was shot in St Peter's Square by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca.<br>
<br>A crazed ultra-conservative Spanish priest, Juan Fernandez Krohn, lunged at the pope with a dagger and was knocked to the ground by police and arrested. The fact that the knife actually reached the pope and cut him was not known until now.<br>
<br>"I can now reveal that the Holy Father was wounded. When we got back to the room (in the Fatima sanctuary complex) there was blood," Dziwisz says in the documentary.<br><br>The pope carried on with the trip without disclosing his wound.<br>
<br>Krohn was arrested and served several years in a Portuguese prison before being expelled from the country. (<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081015/people_nm/us_vatican_film_johnpaul" target="_blank">Reuters</a>)</p>
</blockquote>This story is a good reminder that we should pray for the safety of Pope Benedict, and be thankful for the many times dangers to their person have been narrowly averted in the past.</div>
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