Heads Up! "A MAN WHO BECAME POPE" Tomorrow night Hallmark Channel(Pope John Paul II)

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This is the extraordinary true story of a resilient young boy who, against unimaginable evil, drew inspiration from the beauty of life and in turn became an inspiration to the world… Karol Wojtyla is a boy of eighteen from the town of Wadowice, Poland. On the threshold of life as a budding actor, poet, and writer, the enthusiastic and optimistic young student suddenly sees his world shattered with the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939. As a firsthand witness to the horrors of the invasion, Karol joins a cultural resistance movement, where his life takes a dramatic and remarkable turn, leading to his exodus from Kracow and the creation of an underground theater to resist the invader. This is also where he receives his calling from God to become a priest, much to the disillusionment of the woman he might have loved.

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