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A papal bull
Prelate Stanisław Janasik at the foot of the high altar in the basilica of the Jasna Góra Monastery reads a papal bull. The Holy Father appoints…
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Under a baldachin
Because this is how a bishop should walk – under a baldachin. With pompons, of course :)
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A plenary synod
The first Plenary Synod of Polish Bishops in the Jasna Góra Monastery in the year 1936. The papal legate, card. Marmaggi (in a tabarro and…
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Abp. Baraniak
Father Antoni Baraniak, Metropolitan Archbishop of Poznań, while drinking the Most Precious Blood during the solemn field Mass celebrated on June 19, 1966 in front…
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Dirigatur, Domine
Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and the Primate of Poland, during the incense of the altar cross at the beginning of…
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The Shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa
The Shrine of Miraculous Image of Our Lady in the Jasna Góra Monastery in 1933.
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After celebration
A group photo against the background of the portrait of Holy Father Pius XI. As one may see, on the example of cardinal Marmaggi, the…
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Te Deum
A thanksgiving Te Deum after a Mass. Four rings in the first row. From the left: prelate Kępiński, a canon of the chapter of St.…
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Receiving of the biretta
The papal nuncio to Poland, fr Francesco Marmaggi, according to the pre-partitions privilege of Polish kings, restored by Pius XI for the presidents of the Most…
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Presentation of the zucchetto
A photo taken in the Apostolic Nunciature in Warsaw after the ceremony of the presentation of the cardinal zucchetto, brought from Holy Father Pius XI…
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Prince archbishop
Prince Adam Stefan Sapieha, metropolitan archbishop of Krakow, in 1936.
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Polish Jesuits
Polish Jesuits in Rome. Almost all of them have Roman hats called saturno, the two at the far end in the photo wearing ferraiolo, while…
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Requiem
A solemn Requiem Mass with deacon and subdeacon in the Saint Mary’s Church in Cracow. In front of the altar, surrounded with candles, there is…
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Bp. Wojtyła
Bishop Karol Wojtyła during a pontifical Mass.
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Saint Mary’s Church
A Mass in the Archpresbyterial Church of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven in Cracow. In the picture one may see the largest Gothic retable in…
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Warsaw nuns
The Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul from Warsaw, 1915.
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Silver consecration anniversary of card. Hlond
The Primate of Poland, the metropolitan archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań, August cardinal Hlond listening to the sermon during the pontifical Mass celebrated on the…
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Before the consecration
A picture taken before the episcopal consecration of fr August Hlond S.D.B. (leaving the carriage) conducted by card. Aleksander Kakowski, the Primate of the Kingdom…
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Abp. Wojtyla on the throne
The Metropolitan of Cracow, Archbishop Karol Wojtyła, sitting on the throne during the High Pontifical Mass celebrated on the day of the ingress to the…
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Urbi et Orbi with the pompon
Holy Father Pius XI during the Urbi et Orbi blessing. Once it was done with the pompon.
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Anathema
Chapter V: And whereas such is the nature of man, that, without external helps, he cannot easily be raised to the meditation of divine things;…
