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Saul of Tarsus left Jerusalem determined to put an end to the Christians. Halfway down the road to Damascus, a light changed everything.
The story of the young missionary who helped found São Paulo, learned the Tupi language, and wrote a poem to the Virgin Mary in the sand.
The story of Amabile, the girl who crossed the ocean, cared for the sick in a tiny wooden house, and became the first saint of Brazil.
In wartime Poland, a boy who loved the theater discovered, in the middle of great sorrow, a call from God. This is the story of young Karol Wojtyla, who would one day become Pope John Paul II.
The priest who took young people camping in the mountains became the youngest bishop in Poland, then a cardinal, and at last, on an October afternoon in 1978, the first non-Italian Pope in more than four centuries.
John Paul II traveled the world carrying the Gospel, survived an assassination attempt, and forgave the man who shot him. In this final part, we follow his papacy to the day the people cried out: a saint, right away.





