#OTD#100Years#JohnPaulII On May 18, 1920, Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in Wadowice in the Second Polish Republic, to parents Karol and Emilia Wojtyła. #OTD#100Years#JohnPaulII He had lost all of his immediate family to death by the age of 20, enduring the hardships of WWII in Nazi-occupied Poland, during which he secretly pursued his seminary studies.