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VATICAN CITY - An elderly man stood alone in St. Peter's Square May 13, using his wooden rosary beads to pray by a simple plaque marking the place where St. John Paul II was shot exactly 40 years earlier.

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Man who tried to kill John Paul II takes flowers to his tomb /home/international/item/19450-man-who-tried-to-kill-john-paul-ii-takes-flowers-to-his-tomb /home/international/item/19450-man-who-tried-to-kill-john-paul-ii-takes-flowers-to-his-tomb

VATICAN CITY - Exactly 31 years after St. John Paul II personally forgave him for shooting and trying to assassinate him, Mehmet Ali Agca returned to the Vatican with a bunch of white roses and laid them at the late pope's tomb.

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