Lolek, as his friends knew him, had such a powerful voice that when he sang, the Church walls would shatter to pieces. This is how Karol Wojtyla’s former classmate from Wadowice, Eugeniusz Mróz, remembers the late pope. Today KAI news agency published an interview with John Paul II’s contemporary, on the occasion of the latter’s 92^nd birthday.

On May 13, 1917, the Virgin Mary appeared at the Cova da Iria in Fatima to the three shepherds Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia. It was an apparition that was repeated on the 13th of every month, for six consecutive months.