

In the 1960s, it was opened to civil flights and Alitalia schedules regular flights to Rome, Catania, Palermo, Ancona, Venice. After the war, it was turned over to the postwar Air Force of the Italian Republic ( Aeronautica Militare Italiana). In addition, the airfield was used by the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force (Aviazione Cobelligerante Italiana, or ACI), or Air Force of the South (Aeronautica del Sud), and the Balkan Air Force. Until the end of the war in May 1945, it was used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Forces both as an operational airfield as well as a command and control base. During World War II Italian Campaign, it was seized by the British Eighth Army in late September 1943, and turned into an Allied military airfield. The airport of Bari was originally a military airfield, built in the 1930s, by the Regia Aeronautica. ( April 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Wojtyla was also close to Patrick Keegan, first international president of the YCW.This section does not cite any sources. Later as pope, he wanted to make Uylenbroeck archbishop of Malines-Brussels, but Uylenbroeck was already suffering from the cancer that would kill him. 362)Īs a member of the newly created Pontifical Council for the Laity, Cardinal Wojtyla became close to the international YCW chaplain, Canon Marcel Uylenbroeck. Cardijn, who was raised to the Cardinalate during the period of the Council." (p. "These words sum up the modern idea of the lay apostolate (voir, juger, agir) associated first and foremost with the Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (JOC) under the guidance of the famous Fr J. Later while studying in Rome, he lodged at the Belgian College where he again met Cardijn during the regular visits of the latter to the Vatican as well as returning to Belgium for further visits.Īfter Vatican II, Wojtyla wrote his book Sources of Renewal on the implementation of Vatican II and specifically mentions Cardijn's See Judge Act as the methodology of the lay apostolate.Ĭiting Paragraph 29 of Apostolicam Actuositatem, the Decree on the Lay Apostolate, Wojytla writes: Indeed, in 1947 he visited the International Secretariat of the YCW in Brussels and spent a week being hosted by the movement. It is said that he wished to create the YCW in his home diocese of Cracow, however, Poland was under communism by this time, severely limiting his opportunities.

On his return he wrote an article for the Polish Catholic journal Tygodnik Powszechny on the Mission de France, the prelature founded with the objective of reaching out to the working class. Soon after he made a trip to Belgium and France where he made contact with the JOC and with the worker priests. He was finally ordained in 1946 after the war's end. It was during this period that he began to think of the priesthood and he in fact began his seminary studies.
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Born in Cracow, Poland in 1920, Karol Wojtyla gained experience as a worker during the difficult and tragic years of German occupation of Poland during World War II.įrom 1940 to 1944, he worked as a messenger for a restaurant, a manual labourer in a limestone quarry and for the Solvay chemical factory.
