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Wawel monstrance
17th-century baroque monstrance donated by Michał Oborski, auxiliary bishop of Kraków. According to legend, the cross on it, set with diamonds, was supposed to belong…
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Mass in the ruins
Holy Mass celebrated in the ruins of the Church of St. Casimir the Prince on the New Town Square in Warsaw, which belongs to the…
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New commandment
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in a silk damask simplex mitre with a characteristic pattern of a pine cone and a rochet. The cloth girded over the shoulder…
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Stanisławów
The clergy of Eastern Catholic rites, the Byzantine and Armenian ones, during the procession preceding the coronation of the miraculous image of Our Lady of…
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Pietrowice Śląskie
Easter horse procession in Pietrowice Śląskie, 1984; photo by Krzysztof Niedenthal. The cavalcade sets off from the parish church of Saints Vitus, Modest and Crescentia to…
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Benedictines from Krzeszów
Nuns from the Benedictine convent in Krzeszów during a choir prayer in the monastery chapel. In the centre, on a platform, you may see the…
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Third Silesian Uprising
Field Mass celebrated during the Third Silesian Uprising, 1921. In the background, one can see the armoured car Erhardt M1917, called by the insurgents “Górny…
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Bp. Józef Pelczar
Józef Sebastian Pelczar, Bishop of Przemyśl in the years 1900 – 1924, in the winter choir dress. Please pay attention to an interesting cappa magna,…
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Neo-union
A Corpus Christi procession in the Catholic parish of the Byzantine-Slavonic rite in Kostomłoty. The bi-ritual parish priest of the Neo-union parish, Fr. Zbigniew Nikoniuk,…
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Bp. Hlond
Bishop of Katowice August Hlond S.D.B in a choir dress, i.e. in rochet and mantelletta.
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Cavalcade
Cavalcade on Easter Monday in Pietrowice Śląskie: a horse procession during which the riders ride around fields asking for good harvest; it is led by…
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At Jasna Góra
The first and only official visit of the Chief of State Józef Piłsudski to Jasna Góra, on October 20, 1921, to express gratitude for the…
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Powiśle
A Holy Mass celebrated in Powiśle during the Warsaw Uprising on August 15 [the source: 1944.pl].
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Skałka
Primate of Poland card. Stefan Wyszyński in pontifical vestments with the reliquary of St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów in Cracow in the Skałka church, May 8,…
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Licheń
The Pontifical High Mass celebrated by Leo Cardinal Burke in the Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows Queen of Poland in Licheń Stary, April 28,…
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Abp. Wojtyła
Archbishop Karol Wojtyła during the ingress to the Wawel Cathedral, March 8, 1964.
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Bp. Pelczar
Józef Sebastian Pelczar, the Bishop of Przemyśl, in the choir dress. We would like to draw your attention to the length of the mozzetta and…
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Hats off!
Ostra Brama (the Gate of Dawn), the 30’s of the 20th century. In the pre-war Vilnius there was a beautiful custom: all men, regardless of their…
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Zamość
The field Mass celebrated by the Bishop of the Polish Army Józef Gawlina on the occasion of the 15 years of the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment…
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Fr. Czartoryski O.P.
Blessed Fr. Michał Czartoryski O.P. celebrating a Holy Mass during the Warsaw Uprising on the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on August…
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Coronation
Cardinal Aleksander Kakowski in the presence of the Metropolitan of Vilnius, Fr. Archbishop Romuald Jałbrzykowski (on the right with a crosier in his hand), crowning…
