He
studied philology and literature at the Jagiellonian University
for only a year and a half. In November, 1939 the Nazis sent the
university’s more than 200 professors to Sachsenshausen concentration
camp. Karol secured a job in hard labor at a chemical plant, where
he continued to study in his free moments. Pivotal formative events
during those war years were his membership in "The
Living Rosary," where he was introduced to Carmelite mystical
life, and his recovery after he was hit by a truck on his way home
from work. This forced retreat enabled him to clarify his awareness
of his priestly vocation (which he had already begun to pursue as
an "underground" seminarian). His association with Jan
Tyranowski and Carmelite spirituality through "The Living Rosary"
had already refined his religious self-discipline, a trait that
would always remain with him.
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house of the Daughters of St. Paul,
an international congregation of women religious founded in 1915
to communicate, through the media, Christ and his love.
Through word, image, and sound, as well as through their very lives,
they respond to the deepest aspirations of the human heart,
seeking to create a civilization of love and a future of hope.
He
studied philology and literature at the Jagiellonian University
for only a year and a half. In November, 1939 the Nazis sent the
university’s more than 200 professors to Sachsenshausen concentration
camp. Karol secured a job in hard labor at a chemical plant, where
he continued to study in his free moments. Pivotal formative events
during those war years were his membership in "