Sara Bartoli is better known as the "Angel Baby Who Protected the Pope". On May 13, 1981,
Mehmet Ali Ağca shot
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
as he entered
St. Peter's Square. It would be later revealed that the shooter held off the shot when he saw the Pope hold baby Sara in the air. Mehmet would wait until the baby was safe. Sara was 18 months old at the time and in a blue dress.
At the time of John Paul II's death on April 2, 2005, Sara was a 25-year-old mother-to-be living in
Lariano
Lariano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about southeast of Rome on the Alban Hills.
Twin towns
* Victoria
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, Italy.
References
ABC News
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21st-century Italian women
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