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  • POPE JOHN PAUL II,SKIING
  • FR MICHAEL MCGIVNEY
  • PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI
  • CHIARA LUCE BADANO
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St. John Paul II

As a boy, John Paul II loved playing soccer and was known as "Lolek the Goalie." As a priest, bishop and pope, he hiked and skied constantly. He even won a Bronze Badge for Hiking in 1954.

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