JPII you the illest!

As if I didn't already love Kate Beaton's comics about history and literature, here is one she wrote about Mehmet Ali Agca's assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. (Click here to see it on her site since my formatting is messed up.)


It's no secret that I am a papal fangirl. I got to see JPII live an in person at World Youth Day in Toronto. I wrote a high school paper on said assassination attempt. And yes, there was the infamous Pope poster that hung on all my dorm walls in undergrad.

He died on my little brother's birthday, as I was about to leave college due to medical issues. It's one of the first deaths that really personally affected me.

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