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…

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński preaching  a sermon during a Corpus Christi procession in Warsaw. In the photo there is clearly visible the sleeve of the rochet…

The High Pontifical Mass at the Cathedral of St. John in Warsaw on May 3, 1936. On the right is sitting the Polish President, Ignacy…

The Metropolitan of Cracow, Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, during the celebration of the Holy Mass in Bialystok Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary,…

A resurrection procession in the church of St. Nicholas in Kraków. Interestingly, also the Paschal candle is carried in the procession.

Partisans of the Home Army during the Holy Mass on the wilderness Wykus in the Holy Cross Mountains, September 12, 1943.

Cardinal Karol Wojtyła wrapped up in a szuba during an episcopal visitation to one of the churches of the diocese of Tarnów. The local auxiliary…

Archbishop Antoni Baraniak, the Metropolitan of Poznań, during a Holy Mass celebrated before the Blessed Sacrament exposed (hence he is sitting on the throne without a mitre)…

Karol Wojtyła kissing the ring of the principal consecrator, Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak, during the ceremony of receiving episcopal ordination, the Wawel Cathedral, 28 September 1958.…

An officer kneeling in front of the altar of Our Lady in the Church of Reserve Officers School of Infantry in Komorów.

The Holy Mass celebrated by bishop Stanisław Adamski during the Warsaw Uprising in the courtyard of the building of the Main Post Office on August 15,…

The throne room in the Primatial Palace in Poznań.

The Primate of Poland, August Cardinal Hlond, during the Corpus Christi procession in the ruins of Warsaw, 1946.

Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński in pontifical vestments.

Women praying in front of the Chapel of the Gate of Dawn in Vilnius: in the window is the miraculous image of Our Lady of…

The procession with the relics of St. Stanislaus, 1937. In the foreground one can see cathedral canons in cappae parvae, and behind the feretrum the…

There was a custom worth preserving which was practiced on Palm Sunday in Poland. During the procession with palms, after the entrance to the church…

The partisans of the anti-communist Polish Underground Army of Independence with the chaplain Fr. Władysław Gurgacz S.I. next to the field altar, May 1949.

Members of the Archconfraternity of the Lord’s Passion, existing from the end of the 16th century to the present day, while praying in the chapel…

Cardinal Franciszek Macharski during a procesison wearing the cardinalatial szuba. In the background, on the right, one can see a canon of Wawel Cathedral in a black…