City of Saints: A Pilgrimage to John Paul II's Krakw

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In 1985, Pope John Paul II initiated World Youth Day, a worldwide encounter with the Pope for young people that draws millions across continents (3.7 million people attended the most recent WYD in Brazil in 2013). In 2016, the event will be held in Krak w, Poland, birthplace of its founder, newly canonized Saint Pope John Paul II. George Weigel, the preeminent biographer of John Paul II, now presents a spiritual travelogue that further illuminates the life and homeland of one of the most influential Catholic leaders of all time.

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GEORGE WEIGEL, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America's foremost commentators on issues of religion and public life. A Vatican analyst for NBC News, Weigel is the author of fifteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Witness to Hope- The Biography of Pope John Paul II, Evangelical Catholicism, and Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.