April 2, 2024 / 12:33 AM
This April 2 marks another year of the death of Saint John Paul II, the Polish Pontiff who led the Catholic Church for 26 years and 5 months. Remembered as the “Pilgrim Pope,” he was a great defender of families and loved by young people.
Saint John Paul II died on April 2, 2005 at 09:37 pm (Rome time), the night before Divine Mercy Sunday that he instituted and to which he was very devoted.
A few minutes later, the now Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, who was then Substitute of the Vatican Secretariat of State, announced the news to the thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square and to the rest of the world, which was following Karol’s last hours. Wojtyla through the media.