Letters reveal intense friendship between John Paul 2nd and woman

Correspondence and photos indicate a close relationship between the pope and American philosopher for more than three decades, according to the BBC. Pontiff would have described her friend as "a gift from God."

The Pope John Paul 2nd held for more than 30 years, an intense friendship with a married woman, according to British broadcaster BBC report published on Monday (15/02). There would be no evidence that the Pope broke his vow of celibacy.

The Pope - who died in 2005 and, at the time, still Cardinal Karol Wojtyla - met the Polish-American philosopher Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka in 1973, when she wrote him about a book of his authorship of philosophy. She then aged 50, had traveled from the US to Poland to discuss the work.

"I believe that, at an early stage of the relationship, probably in the summer of 1975, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka told Karol Wojtyla she was in love with him," wrote Ed Stourton, author of a television report on the matches, to be displayed this second -feira by the BBC.

The journalist came to the event after analyzing a number of papal letters and photographs sold by Tymieniecka the Polish National Library in 2008 and have never been shown to the public.

In one of the letters of 1976, the Pope would have written. "My dear Teresa, received all three letters you write about being torn apart, but I could not find an answer to these words." He describes it as a "gift of God."

The BBC says it has not had access to letters of Tymieniecka, who died in 2014. It is believed that copies of the writings have been included in the file sold to the Polish National Library, which would have confirmed this fact.

The religious of the letters reveal that he presented his friend with a scapular. Moreover, he would have written to philosopher after being elected pope, saying you want to keep up. He said he did not want "the exchange of ideas, I always believed to be as creative and fruitful", was interrupted.

The two then ended up cutting relations because of a book they were writing together, making up later and remained friends until the end of his life.

Photos, which had never been disclosed, show Tymieniecka and Wojtyla on country walks, skiing in the mountains, a group camp and in her visit to the Vatican.

The BBC says it has been able to confirm that the Vatican had access to the correspondence between the two. According to the broadcaster, the Polish National Library said that friendship was "one of many warm friendships," the pope continued throughout life.