Remembering Pope John Paul II on the anniversary of his passing.

Pope John Paul II, the third-longest serving pope, died on April 2, 2005, at the age of 84. He survived an assassination attempt in 1981 and made over 100 international apostolic journeys during his papacy. John Paul II was beatified in 2011 and canonized in 2014, along with his predecessor Pope John XIII, on Divine Mercy Sunday. He was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and was devoted to the visions and message of Polish mystic St. Faustina Kowalska.