Pope John Paul II

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• John Paul II's apostolic motto was Totus Tuus ("all yours"); he borrowed the motto from the Marian consecrating prayer of Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort.
• According to a New York Post article of 19 February 2002, John Paul II personally performed three exorcisms during his tenure as pope. The first exorcism was performed on a woman in 1982. His second was in September 2000 when he performed the rite on a nineteen-year-old woman who had become enraged in St Peter's Square. A year later, in September 2001, he performed an exorcism on a twenty-year-old woman.
• The John Paul II International Airport (IATA: KRK), in Balice, Poland, near Kraków where he served as Archbishop before being elected Pope, was named in his honour.
• In 2004 he received an extraordinary Charlemagne Award of the city of Aachen, Germany.
• The Harlem Globetrotters visited Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in November of 2000 and named the Pontiff an Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
• Tom Clancy wrote Red Rabbit, which was about an assassination attempt on the pope.
• On 23 March 1999, John Paul II released his debut CD "Abbà Pater".
• John Paul II has been featured on at least seven popular albums in his native Poland. Most notably singer/songwriter Stanislaw Sojka?s 2003 album, ?Jan Pawel II -- Tryptyk Rzymski?, a ten-track collection of the Pope's poems set to music, reached No. 1.{{ref|msnbc}}
• In 2003, his death was incorrectly announced by CNN when his pre-written obituary (along with those of several other famous figures) was inadvertently published on CNN's web site due to a lapse in password protection.
• A popular story in chess circles states that a certain Karol Wojtyla had published a chess problem in 1946. Although the young Wojtyla was indeed an accomplished chess player, the story of this publication appears to be a hoax whose roots were uncovered by Tomasz Lissowski.
• The entertainment industry also made references to John Paul II by having him appear as a character in some television shows and motion pictures. His "appearances" include "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy" television shows, and in movies, "Hot Shots!" and "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult"