Pope John Paul II

Standard Name: John Paul II, Pope

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Literary responses	Hildegarde of Bingen	In 1227, Pope Gregory IX initiated proceedings to canonize HB. The proceedings were halted in 1243 and an appeal, made in 1998, to complete HB's canonization was ignored by Pope John Paul II . Newman, Barbara. “’Sibyl of the Rhine’: Hildegard’s Life and Times”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 1-29. 29 Newman, Barbara. “Uppity Trumpet of the Living Light”. London Review of Books, 20 Jan. 2001, pp. 19-21. 19

Timeline

13 May 1981

Pope John Paul II was shot in the Vatican by the Turk Mehmet Ali Agca . He survived to complete one of the longest pontificates in modern times before dying in 2005.

Bernard, Bruce, editor. Century. Phaidon, 2002.

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10 July 1994

Pope John Paul II published a letter to the world's women admitting that the Church had discriminated against them, but maintaining his reactionary stance on gender issues.

Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.

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