This coin commemorates the years of life, one of the greatest and most outstanding Poles in the history of our country, as well as the whole world. The obverse of the coin presents images of two hands. The reverse shows an image of Pope John Paul II and a fragment of the Minor Basilica of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Wadowice. John Paul II - a Polish Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop of Cracow (1958-1964), and then Archbishop Metropolitan of Cracow (1964-1978), cardinal (1967-1978), deputy chairman of the Polish Bishops' Conference (1969-1978), 264th Pope and 6th Sovereign of the Vatican State in 1978-2005. Saint of the Catholic Church. Poet and polyglot, as well as a non-professional actor, playwright and educator. History philosopher, phenomenologist, mystic and representative of Christian personalism. During his pontificate he visited 129 countries. He beatified 1340 people and canonised 483, more than all his predecessors in the five preceding centuries. By the time of his death, he had appointed most of the College of Cardinals, consecrated a large number of bishops in the world and ordained many priests. John Paul II was the first non-Italian Pope since Dutch Pope Hadrian VI (1522-1523), and the second longest serving Pope in modern history after Pope Pius IX (1846-1878). He died on 2 April 2005. The funeral ceremony was attended by delegations from over 150 countries[8], and a six-day national mourning was announced in Poland. The process of John Paul II's beatification began a month after his funeral, leaving aside the traditional five-year waiting period. He was beatified on 1 May 2011, after which he was canonised on 27 April 2014, simultaneously with Pope John XXIII. This event went down in the history of the Church because two popes were declared saints in the presence of two bishops of Rome - the incumbent Francis and the retired Benedict XVI.