Flowers placed at the base of a statue of St John Paul, outside the Polish Catholic Church of Christ the King, Balham, London Borough of Wandsworth, 13 April 2020.  The first non-Italian pope since the sixteenth century, John Paul was born Karol Józef Wojtyla in Poland in 1920, elected pope in 1978, died in 2005, and was canonised in 2014.