Photos: Remembering Pope John Paul II

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Photos: Remembering Pope John Paul II

A look back at some of the iconic images of Pope John Paul II.

VATICAN CITY - DECEMBER 17: Pope John Paul II waves during his weekly audience December 17, 2003 in Vatican City. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

VATICAN CITY - APRIL 1: Pope John Paul II, 83-years-old, kisses as child as he arrives for World Youth Day festivities at St. Peter's Square April 1, 2004 in Vatican City. The Pope stated that the Catholic church must do more to reach out to young people and asked them to remain faithful to the gospel. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

1948: Polish priest Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II in 1978. He was the first non-Italian Pope since Adrian VI died in 1523. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

FILE - This April 10, 2003 file photo shows Pope John Paul II looking at a white dove released in honor of his repeated calls for peace by Roman youths, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. John Paul II will be made saint together with late Pope John XXIII during a solemn ceremony at the Vatican Sunday. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti, files)

Pope John Paul II (1920 - 2005) in agony after being shot by would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square, 13th May 1981. (Photo by Tommy W. Andersen/Keystone/Getty Images)

A school portrait showing Karol Jozef Wojtyla (top left), the future Pope John Paul II, as a schoolboy, circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

A portrait of late Pope John Paul II is displayed inside St. Sprit in Sassia church during a mass in Rome, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Hundred thousands of pilgrims and faithful are expected to reach Rome to attend the scheduled April 27 ceremony at the Vatican in which Pope Francis will elevate in a solemn ceremony John XXIII and John Paul II to sainthood. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A picture of late Pope John Paul II is displayed inside St. Sprit in Sassia church during a mass in Rome, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Hundred thousands of pilgrims and faithful are expected to reach Rome to attend the scheduled April 27 ceremony at the Vatican in which Pope Francis will elevate in a solemn ceremony John XXIII and John Paul II to sainthood. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

FILE In this April 2, 20014 file photo an unusually empty main square with a commemorative cross in downtown Warsaw, Poland on Wednesday, April 2, 20014 during observances marking nine years since the death of much-loved Polish-born Pope John Paul II. Over the years, the observances attract fewer and fewer people in an a sign that the enthusiasm that the Poles accord one of their greatest countrymen is gradually dissipating.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

FILE -- In this file photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope John Paul II in his popemobile waves to the crowd as he leaves St. Peter's Square after the beatification ceremony of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, depicted in a tapestry hung on the Basilica's facade, at the Vatican Sunday, Oct. 19 2003. John Paul II declared more saints _ 482 _ than all his predecessors combined, thinking them role models for a church desperately in need of them. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, HO)

The young Karol Josef Wojtyla of Poland, the future Pope John Paul II, shaves in the open air, circa 1960. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2004 file photo, Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ's Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican. Pope John Paul II is rightly credited with having helped bring down communism, of inspiring a new generation of Catholics with a globe-trotting papacy and of explaining church teaching on a range of hot-button issues as Christianity entered its third millennium. But the sexual abuse scandal that festered under his watch remains a stain on his legacy. John Paul and his top advisers failed to grasp the severity of the abuse problem until very late in his 26-year papacy, even though U.S. bishops had been petitioning the Holy See since the late-1980s for a faster way to defrock pedophile priests. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)

FILE - In an Oct. 7, 1995 file photo, Pope John Paul II celebrates mass in New York's Central Park. John Paul II will be made saint together with late Pope John XXIII during a solemn ceremony at the Vatican Sunday. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

Visit of the Pope John Paul II to Santiago de Compostela, 9th November 1982, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. (Photo by Gianni Ferrari/Cover/ GettyImages)

Greeting of the Pope John Paul II to the College at the Stadium 'Santiago Bernabeu', Third November 1982, Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Gianni Ferrari/Cover/Getty Images)

LORENZAGO DI CADORE, ITALY - UNDATED: (FILE PHOTO) Pope John Paul II takes a walk during his Alpine vacation in July 1995 in The Dolomite Mountains, Lorenzago di Cadore, Italy. The Pontiff, who is now unable to walk, will mark his 25th anniversary on October 16, 2003. (Photo by Arturo Mari-Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

1978: Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II, is surrounded by little girls during a visit to a village near Krakow. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The bloodstained undershirt worn by Pope John Paul II during the assassination attempt on May, 13, 1981, in Rome, is seen Thursday, April 10, 2014.(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A detail of the bullet drilled and bloodstained undershirt worn by Pope John Paul II during the assassination attempt on May, 13, 1981, kept at the Daughters of Charity, in Rome, Thursday, April 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope John Paul II being supported by his aides moments after the assassination attempt by a Turkish terrorist in St Peter's Square, Rome. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Mehmet Ali Agca in custody for the killing of a Turkish journalist in Istanbul. He shot Pope John Paul II in a failed assassination attempt (13th May, 1981). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

A collection of new 2 zloty coins (euro cents 50) and bearing the image of Polish-born Pope John Paul II that are issued to the public on the occasion of his sainthood that is to be announced at the Vatican on April 27. Hundreds of people waited in lines before the National Bank of Poland in Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 to buy the coins that also have collector�s value. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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VATICAN CITY - DECEMBER 17: Pope John Paul II waves during his weekly audience December 17, 2003 in Vatican City. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

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