The display, under the motto “I Forgive You,” features a replica of the room at the Gemelli clinic in Rome where the Polish-born pope was treated after an assassination attempt on his life 40 years ago.
The exhibits include a hospital bed with a mattress and linen bearing the clinic’s coat-of-arms, a bedside cabinet, a glass cabinet for medicines and two chairs.
Już od dziś w Muzeum Dom Rodzinny Ojca Świętego Jana Pawła II zobaczyć można wystawę czasową "Przebaczam", która...
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Visitors can also see fragments of a previously unseen documentary film with the participation of the pope’s personal doctor Renato Buzzonetti.
The museum says on its website that the exhibits are a silent testimony to the pope’s suffering as well as his devotion to prayer and forgiveness.
Four days after the assassination attempt, John Paul II, in a message recorded from his hospital bed, asked his followers to pray for “my brother” who shot him and said he had “sincerely forgiven" the Turkish assassin Ali Agca.
Już w najbliższy czwartek, 13 maja serdecznie zapraszamy na uroczystości dziękczynne 40. rocznicy ocalenia Ojca Świętego...
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The core exhibition at the Wadowice museum contains the gun from which Ali Agca fired at the pope and the blood-stained suit of the pontiff’s bodyguard, Francesco Pasanisi.
The attempt on the pope’s life took place on May 13, 1981.
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