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Papal Last Will & Testament

The full text.

Excerpts: “I thank all. I ask all for forgiveness. I also ask for prayer, so that God’s Mercy will show itself greater than my weakness and unworthiness. “

In the measure that the end of my earthly life approaches I return to the memory of the beginning, of my Parents, my Brother and my Sister (whom I did not know because she died before my birth), to the parish of Wadowice, where I was baptized, to that city of my love, of my contemporaries, girl and boy companions of elementary school, the junior high school, the university, until the times of the Occupation, when I worked as a laborer, and later on in the parish of Niegowic, Krakow’s of St. Florian, to the pastoral care of academics, the environment … to all environments … to Krakow and to Rome … to persons who in a special way were entrusted to me by the Lord.

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