Back in 1982, Pope John Paul was at Fatima Shrine, Portugal when a right wing Spanish ex-priest from Madrid wounded the pontiff.
The pope's personal secretary, a cardinal, says the wound was not life threatening, but there was blood.
The attacker, Juan Fernandez Krohn spent time in a Portugese prison.
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