John Paul II. The first non-Italian to sit on the Holy See since the sixteenth century. The last Pope of the past century, who celebrated the twentieth anniversary of his pontificate in 1998. A pope who, throughout his church career, has steadily destroyed stereotypes, presenting himself to his flock not as a symbol of past glory, but as a living person. The head of more than a billion Catholics, striving, in his own words, to be a “Pope for all”... The personal popularity of this man is amazing - in recent years alone, more than a hundred biographies of him have been published in different languages. This book is different from many. This is not just a biography, not just a list of dates, events and facts, but a multi-level, detailed psychological portrait of one of the most famous people of our time.

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