“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” Leo Tolstoy
St. John Paul’s first words from his hospital bed after being shot by Ali Agca in St. Peter’s Square were: “Let us pray for my brother who tried to kill me, and whom I have sincerely forgiven.” Shortly after leaving the hospital, he visited Ali in his prison cell to personally forgive him (pictured below).
