Saint Pope John Paul II, a Hero Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in Wadowice, Poland in 1920. He was born the youngest of the three children. He went to Jagiellonian University and studied philology. He volunteered many hours each day and also learned many languages. Karol became a hero through the struggles of World War II, the struggles of being the pope, the challenges of leading the Catholic Church, and struggles of relations with other faiths. Karol had to face many struggles during World War II, when Poland was invaded by the German Nazis under Adolf Hitler. Men were required to work, so he worked doing many jobs to avoid deportation to Germany. His entire family died by the time he was twenty years old. After some of the early struggles he faced, Karol wanted to become a priest. Karol studied to become a Catholic priest in private, so he would not be captured by the Nazis, eventually being ordained on November 1, 1946. In his first heroic act, he helped a young …show more content…
The main religions that Pope John Paul II focused on were the faiths of Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism. He tried very hard to better the relationship with the Islamic people by being the first pope to pray in a mosque and he hosted an event to help bring together the Islamic leaders and Jewish leaders, which was very effective. Pope John Paul II also tried to bring the Jewish people in better relations with the Catholics. In particular, he visited the Auschwitz Concentration camp in Poland and also was the first pope to go to a synagogue when he went to the Great Synagogue of Rome. Likewise, John Paul II visited, touched, and left a letter at the Western Wall to ask for forgiveness from the Jews. He helped improve relation with Buddhists since he and the Dalai Lama of the Buddhists met eight times together. They shared many similar views and tried to rebuild their faiths after dictatorships in both
William P. Quinn was the fourth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was one of the most energetic and longest-serving bishop out of all the other individuals. He was born on April 10th, 1788 in Calcutta, India. He was 20 years old when he immigrated to the U.S and settled in Bulks Country, Pennsylvania. After being reciprocated by the black Methodist preachers in 1808, he became more progressive in the church. In 1812, Quinn got his license to preach and attended at the conception of the AME Church in Philadelphia in 1816.
He succeeded in influencing his people that nonviolence is the key to peace even in hard times. One of the strong devices used to influence was pathos. At the beginning of his
John Pope In 1770 John Pope was born in prince William County, Virginia. He inter the war of 1812 he was unsuccessful to serving a single term in the us military. Win he was a young kid he lost his arm to a farming accent. His father put him in a privet school in bartend, Kentucky.
Religion, empathy, sympathy and compassion are all words that describe a kind and caring person. They describe millions of Jewish people before the Holocaust. This race and many other groups of people that were targeted encountered terrible things that no human being should ever experience. These groups, including Elie Wiesel the author of the book Night, lost their religion, faith, empathy, sympathy and compassion because of the Holocaust, and became selfish beings that were focused only on survival. Early on Wiesel was a kind and caring young man who devoted himself to religion and to his studies.
In May 1944, Nazi Germany, with Hungary’s agreement, forced Jews living in Sighet to be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. At the age of 15, Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million Jews. Wiesel was later sent to Buna Werke labor camp, a subcamp of Auschwitz III - Monowitz, with his father where they were forced to work in deplorable, un-human conditions. They, again, were transferred to other Nazi camps and force marched to Buchenwald where his father died after being beat to death by a German soldier, just three months before the camp was liberated. Wiesel’s mother and younger sister Tzipora also died in the Holocaust.
After college, Simon Wiesenthal worked at a bedsprings factory. He married Cyla Muller in 1936. Shortly after his marriage, Simon Wiesenthal’s family suffered from persecution from Nazi soldiers (Biography.com). Adolf Hitler interrupted his life and his family life, and he fought in World War II (“Simon”). The many encounters throughout Simon Wiesenthal’s life caused him to become influential in the Jewish community.
He was able to end one of the major wars and as a result of this success he was able to win a Nobel Peace Prize. The journey to statehouse began through hard work where this leader tried to campaign for the presidential seat but failed. He tried and eventually made it when the president in office at that time was assassinated and this He became the next
He stopped his violent conquests and tried to relieve his people's suffering. Asoka was tolerant of all religions, but he devoted himself to Buddhism. He built monasteries. He also supported the work of Buddhist missionaries. They carried Buddhism south to Ceylon and north to Kashmir.
He was born into a relatively wealthy family on November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, Germany, to Hans and Margaret Luther. His parents were peasants, but his father had worked hard to become a small-scale entrepreneur. Luther started his education at a young age, attending three different schools as a child. In 1501, he
And encouraged people for their religion and he even made such an influence on many people that they became buddhas(Doc
In this year he joined the Nazi Regime. Following his “membership” he received his medical degree and joined the SS. Mengele was drafted into the army soon. Then he assisted medics in the field.
After the war, Dr.Mengele had to live his life in hiding. He first worked as a farmhand in Europe, but it was too dangerous for him there so under a fake name, Dr. Mengele sailed to Argentina. He started a family, got into trouble and later died of a stroke while swimming. This was the infamous life of
When you develop the culture, he gives the citizens more pride. And the politics, he wanted everyone to have a say in the leadership of their country. He wanted everyone to able to participate in elections, and he wanted the heads of state that sat in the
Hitler was from a broken home and with the death of his mother in december of 1907 and father in january of 1903. He then
Joachim Georg Kroll, or also known as the Ruhr Cannibal or Ruhr Hunter, was born on the 17th of April 1933 in Hindenburg, Nazi Germany and died on the 1st of July 1991 in Rheinbach, Germany. He was a serial killer, child molester and cannibal and killed from the 8th of February 1955 to the 3rd of July 1976 and confessed 14 murders all around the Ruhr metropolitan region in the west of Germany. Kroll died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in the prison of Rheinbach. Kroll was the youngest of eight children.