Sara Bartoli is better known as the "Angel Baby Who Protected the Pope". On May 13, 1981,

Mehmet Ali Ağca Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born 9 January 1958) is a Turkish hitman and former member of the Grey Wolves. He murdered Abdi İpekçi, a journalist, on 1 February 1979 and was imprisoned. He escaped from prison and travelled illegally to Vatican City o ...

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Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

as he entered St. Peter's Square. It would be later revealed that the shooter held off the shot when he saw the Pope hold baby Sara in the air. Mehmet would wait until the baby was safe. Sara was 18 months old at the time and in a blue dress. At the time of John Paul II's death on April 2, 2005, Sara was a 25-year-old mother-to-be living in

Lariano Lariano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, in the Italian region of Lazio, located about southeast of Rome on the Alban Hills. Twin towns * Victoria, Romania, since April 2007 * Sausset-les-Pins, France * ...

, Italy.

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