An unusual relic of Saint John Paul II is displayed with the sisters known as Daughters of Charity in Rome. This consists of the undershirt the Pope was wearing when he was shot in the piazza of St Peter’s by Mehmet Ali Agca on May 13, 1981. After the shooting, he was rushed to the hospital to save his life, to be operated on quickly. When they ripped open his shirt, they threw it on the floor, and worked on the critical surgery. When they operation was finished successfully, the nurse Anna Stanghellini noticed the shirt still on the floor. She noticed that it was going to be thrown out, until she picked it up and saved it. Knowing that the Pope was close to the sisters of St. Vincent de Paul, Anna passed it on to the Daughters of Charity, who eventually displayed it for many visitors to look at, and also to venerate, especially after he died and was canonized.
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