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Another incredibly close call of a bullet——barely missing the Pope’s vital organs.

Pope John II placed one of the bullets from his body at the shrine in Fatima later when he recovered.

“The sainted Holy Father was shot during the assassination attempt of May 13, 1981 on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. Sustaining two gunshot wounds, Saint John Paul II claimed that, “one hand pulled the trigger, another guided the bullet,” and it was Our Lady herself who saved him from certain death.”
—Saint John Paul II Society website

“He wasn’t hit in vital parts but they were not light injuries. Important blood vessels were just barely missed.”

He said the Pope was shot twice in the lower intestine.

One bullet passed through the body, causing another wound when it left, and another stayed in the body and was extracted by surgeons. The Pope also had two slight wounds on his right arm and one on his left hand.

The bulletin said the trajectory of one bullet which entered the Pope’s abdomen was long and had caused a massive hemorrhage requiring a transfusion of three liters of A-negative blood, which had not immediately been available.
—Sydney Morning Herald.