On this day, May 12, 1982, a Spanish priest, Juan Fernandez Krohn, attacked and wounded Pope John Paul II with a bayonet in Portugal.

His attack came a year after the pope was wounded by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca in Rome.

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