Aide: Pope John Paul II wounded in 1982 stabbing
AP Thu Oct 16, 2:29 PM ET
In this May 12, 1982 file photo Pope John Paul II is seen on his popemobile after he celebrated a mass in Fatima Square, Portugal, May 12, 1982. The longtime private secretary of the late Pope John Paul II has revealed that the pope was wounded in a 1982 knife attack by a priest in Portugal. Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz makes the revelation in 'Testimony,'' a movie on John Paul's life that was screened for Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008. It was known that John Paul was assaulted by a knife-wielding Spanish priest while visiting the shrine of Fatima in Portugal to give thanks for surviving an assassination attempt in 1981, when he was shot by a Turkish gunman in St. Peter's Square.
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By DANIELA PETROFF, Associated Press Writer
52 minutes ago
VATICAN CITY - The longtime private secretary of the late Pope John Paul II revealed in a film screened Thursday that the pope was lightly wounded in a 1982 knife attack by a priest in Portugal. Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz made the revelation in "Testimony," a movie on John Paul's life that was screened for Pope Benedict XVI and top clergy at the Vatican.
It was known that John Paul was assaulted by a knife-wielding Spanish priest while visiting the shrine of Fatima in Portugal to give thanks for surviving an assassination attempt. He was shot by a Turkish gunman in St. Peter's Square in 1981 and seriously injured.
But it was not known in 1982 that the pope had been cut by the knife.
"Today I can say what up to now we have kept secret," Dziwisz said in the movie. "That priest wounded the Holy Father."
The ultraconservative priest, Juan Maria Fernandez Krohn, was opposed to the reforms adopted by the Catholic Church and attacked the pope in a Fatima square. He was stopped by police and spent several years in jail.
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