Saturday, December 10, 2005

Discreet bidding war driving up price of family home of JPII in Poland

Jews and Catholics bid for pope's family home

Ian Traynor, central Europe correspondent

Saturday December 10, 2005

The Guardian

The two rooms and a kitchen in southern Poland where Karol Wojtyla was born in 1920 is now a shrine to the memory of the late Pope John Paul II, visited by up to 5,000 pilgrims every day.

The property, owned by the heirs of a local Jewish family living in the US, is also now the target of a discreet bidding war pitting the Archbishop of Krakow, the pontiff's former confidante, against Polish and American Jewish organisations.
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