Stickler reported that Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II had confided to him that during his time as a student at the "Pontificium Athenaeum Internationale Angelicum" (subsequently renamed the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas and often known simply as the "Angelicum") Wojtyła made a pilgrimage in 1947 to Pietrelcina to visit Padre Pio who told Wojtyła that one day he would ascend to "the highest post in the Church." Stickler added that Wojtyła believed that the prophecy was fulfilled when he became a cardinal.