Snip from The Times
From Richard Owen in Rome
THE Pope marks his 84th birthday today with the publication of a new volume of autobiography in which he says he has a guardian angel who watches over him.
He also reveals that his election as pontiff in 1978 was “prophesied” 20 years earlier, when he was made auxiliary Bishop of Cracow at the age of 38.
The book, Rise Up, Let Us Go, deals with the Pope’s “war of nerves” with the Communist authorities in Cracow, first as bishop and then as archbishop and cardinal before his election as Pope.
He recalls that he was on a canoeing expedition in the Masurian Lakes in Poland in 1958 when he was summoned by Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, then the primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, to be told that he was to be a bishop. The Pope protested that he was too young. The following day he presented himself to Monsignor Eugeniusz Baziak, the Archbishop of Cracow, who took him by the arm — “I remember it as if it were yesterday” — and introduced him to a group of local priests with the startling words “Habemus papam”, the Latin formula used during the announcement on St Peter’s Square when a pope is elected. The Pope remarks that “in the light of later events” the words “could be said to be prophetic”.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-1114295,00.htmlThis prophesy sounds like something from a Polish 19th century poem by Juliush Slowacki(??) or maybe Mickiewicz about a fantasy/dream that predicted a Polish Pope: "Polski Papierzu"....
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