Letter from late Pope John Paul II to his assailant found
‘A previously unknown letter from the late Pope John Paul II to Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turk who tried to assassinate the pontiff in 1981, was found in the pope’s private archives, Archbishop Stanilaw Dziwisz revealed.
“The Holy Father wrote a letter to Ali Agca, but it was never sent,” the pope’s former secretary told AFP, adding that it was never shown to anyone.
According to the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita, the letter was probably written between May 1981 and December 1983, and it asked Agca: “Why did you gun me down, when we both believe in one God?”
The paper also said the letter may be sent to the officials overseeing the beatification process of Karol Wojtyla, the Polish name of the John Paul II, who died on April 2.’
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