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December 29, 2014

Man who tried to kill John Paul II takes flowers to his tomb

St. John Paul II sits with his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca, in Rome's Rebibbia prison in this 1983 photo. Mehmet Ali Agca laid a bunch of white roses at St. John Paul II's tomb exactly 31 years after the late Pope forgave him for shooting and trying to assassinate him.

VATICAN CITY - Exactly 31 years after St. John Paul II personally forgave him for shooting and trying to assassinate him, Mehmet Ali Agca returned to the Vatican with a bunch of white roses and laid them at the late pope's tomb.

Published in International