PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP (FILES) File picture dated 13 May 1981 shows Pope John Paul II collapsing after being shot at by young Turk Mehmet Ali Agca while circling St. Peter's Square before his General Audience. Tomorrow is the 21st anniversary of the attack on the Pope

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II (C) blesses followers a few seconds before being shot and seriously wounded 13 May 1981 at Saint Peter's square by a Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca. Agca was jailed for 19 years in Italy for the attack on the Pope, which left the head of the Roman Catholic church seriously wounded. He was pardoned by the Italian president in June 2000, and extradited back to Turkey where he was jailed for the 1979 attacks

Jean-Paul II Pape Jean-Paul II 13 May 1981 At 5:15 pm, attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II, at St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is wounded in the arm and abdomen, but not fatally . Jean-Paul II sur son lit d'hopital aprcs la tentative d'assass

Jean-Paul II Pape Jean-Paul II 13 May 1981 At 5:15 pm, attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II, at St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is wounded in the arm and abdomen, but not fatally .

Jean-Paul II Pape Jean-Paul II 13 May 1981 At 5:15 pm, attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II, at St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is wounded in the arm and abdomen, but not fatally .

Jean-Paul II Pape Jean-Paul II 13 May 1981 At 5:15 pm, attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II, at St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is wounded in the arm and abdomen, but not fatally . Jean-Paul II sur son lit d'hopital aprcs la tentative d'assass

Jean-Paul II Pape Jean-Paul II Mehmet Ali Agca 27 Dec 1983 Pope John Paul II meets with Mehmet Ali Agca.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/ WOJTEK LASKI/POOL L.OR Papiez Jan Pawel II i jego niedoszly zabojca, zamachowiec Ali Agca, spotkanie we wloskim wiezieniu, 27.12.1983.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP The Turkish prisoner Ali Ag??a looks at the pistols given to him by italian judge Severino Santiapichi, 24 June 1985 in Roma, during the hearing of the trial against turks and bulgarians suspected in the pope John-Paul II assassination attempt in St Peter's square in 1981.(FILM) AFP PHOTO

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP The Turkish prisoner Ali Ag??a answers to the questions of the court's president, 27 May 1985 in Roma, during the hearing of the trial against turks and bulgarians charged in the pope plot. Ali Ag??a was serving a life sentence because he tried to assassinate Pope John-Paul II 13 May 1981. He was pardoned by Italy's president in June 1985 and returned to Turkey, where he was imprisoned for the murder of a newspaper editor. (FILM) AFP PHOTO

PHOTO: LASKI DIFFUSION / EAST NEWS Zamach na papieza Jana Pawla II, Plac sw. Piotra, Watykan, Rzym, 13.05.1981. Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, Roma, 13/05/1981.