Dining Room of the Family Home of Pope John Paul II
I was surprised to know that the family home of Pope John Paul II was actually an apartment. It was also here that Karol Wojtyla the man who would become Pope John Paul II was born. It is actually interesting to be visiting the home of a saint and find out how normal it actually was. For sure, the presence of the basilica right next door would have played an important role in the future vacation of the young Karol, but the humble and ordinary circumstances of the life of Karol reflects on what it takes to be someone great and worthy of emulation.
Bedroom of the Family Home of Pope John Paul II
The apartment is actually two stories high. It wasn’t easy to tell what was upstairs from the outside but there was a tour of the old apartment and it was made to look as it did back then. It was surprisingly normal. The apartment was surprisingly large. We were first led to the dining room. It was as if you just walked into someone else’s house. One could imagine the future saint running around the house as a young kid. It is as much as a museum for life in the early 1900s as it is a museum of the life of Pope John Paul II.
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