Peter Gažík He is today CEO of TV Markíza, but he started on television as an editor of foreign news. 20 years ago he was in the Vatican when Pope John Paul II died. and mapped his funeral. During Saturday’s extraordinary show he remembered his beginnings.
“At that time I was a beginning news editor and after six months this event came. By controlling Italian and I was close to religious topics, it was so fell that I was honored to go to Rome and be there. I was there sometime in February, when Pope John Paul II was also. Hispitalized in the same Gemelli hospital, his condition worsened and then exactly 20 years ago in April came to the death, ”said Zlatica Puškárová, who also moderated an extraordinary studio to the funeral of the Pope.
“It was an event. John Paul II. He was a huge personality not only within the Catholic Church, but of course society as a society. As one of the few popes, he is still referred to as’ Papa Grande ‘, a Great Pope, which is such an unofficial, but still a title,’ Gažík described.
“Already in those days there was the streets of Rome“ Santo Subito ” (Saint immediately, ed.). The emotion was huge, at that time it was said to be up to a million people in Rome, ” He finished the CEO of TV Markíza and added that at that time the Internet was not so widespread, so he bought a newspaper to know what happened. Also in live broadcast he admitted that he is The son of a Protestant priest and two years studied in Rome Protestant theology. The shots of Gažík from Rome 20 years ago can be found in the gallery.
