10 Times Pope John Paul II Blew Us Away

When he kept skiing until he was 73 years old.

When he traveled the equivalent of to the moon and back three times with his world travel, covering almost 800,000 miles in his papacy.

When he had his confession heard by Padre Pio, who he would canonize half a century later.

When he broke the saint canonizing papal record, making over 110 men and women saints in the Catholic Church.

When the crowd wouldn't stop clapping for him for a record fourteen minutes.

When he became the first Pope to visit the White House, a synagogue, and Cuba.

When he completed his seminary training in the underground seminary in Poland.

When he ran and performed in an underground theater that they called the Rhapsodic Theater, to combat the Nazis in Poland.

When he shocked the world and taught about sex and Theology of the Body as a celibate man.

When he set records as the first non-Italian pope in over 450 years.