ʻO ka wānana a Padre Pio e pili ana iā Ioane Paulo II

ʻO kekahi mau wānana e pili ana i nā pope e hiki mai ana i pili iā Padre Pio. ʻO ka mea kaulana a kaulana loa e pili ana iā John Paul II. Ua hui ʻo Karol Wojtyla iā Padre Pio i ka puna o 1947; i ka manawa e aʻo ana ke kahuna ʻōpio Polani ma ka Angelicum a noho ʻo ia ma ke Kulanui Belgian ma Roma. I nā lā o ka Easter, hele ʻo ia i San Giovanni Rotondo, kahi i hālāwai ai ʻo ia me Padre Pio, a e like me ka moʻolelo i haʻi aku ka friar iā ia: "E lilo ʻoe i Pope, akā ʻike wau i ke koko a me ka hana ʻino ma luna ou". Eia naʻe, ʻo John Paul II, i nā manawa pinepine, ua hōʻole mau i ka loaʻa ʻana o kēia wānana.

ʻO ka mea mua i kākau e pili ana iā ia, ma hope koke o ka hoʻāʻo ʻana i ka pope, ma Mei 17, 1981, ʻo Giuseppe Giacovazzo, i kēlā manawa ka luna o ka Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. ʻO kāna mea hoʻoponopono i kapa ʻia: E lilo ʻoe i Pope i ke koko, ua haʻi ʻo Padre Pio iā ia, a me ka pihi: He wānana e pili ana iā Wojtyla?. Ua kuhikuhi ka mea kākau moʻolelo ʻo kāna kumu ʻo ia ka mea kākau ʻo Times ʻo Peter Nichols, nāna i haʻi iā ia i ka makahiki 1980. ʻO ke kumu o ka mea nūpepa Pelekane, ʻo ia hoʻi, "he Benedictine i noho pū ma Italia" (ʻaʻole hiki iā Nichols ke loaʻa hou) ua aʻo ʻo ia i nā mea āpau mai kahi kaikunāne i hōʻike pololei i ka hanana. ʻO ka manaʻo o ka pope e hiki mai ana penei: "No ka mea ʻaʻole hiki iaʻu ke lilo i Pope, hiki iaʻu ke noho mālie no ke koena. He ʻano hōʻoiaʻiʻo koʻu ʻaʻole e loaʻa ka hewa iaʻu.' ʻO ka lā ma mua o ka "hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo" o ka ʻatikala i manaʻo ʻia me kahi hoʻokuʻu paʻi, hoʻokuʻu pū ʻia e ka hui Ansa. No laila, i ka manawa like me ka Gazzetta, nui nā nūpepa ʻē aʻe i "hōʻike" i ka wānana i pili i ka haipule Capuchin a ua mālama ʻia ke kumuhana no hoʻokahi mahina e ka paʻi.