The Cracow suffragan, bishop Stanisław Rospond, conferring the priesthood in the Franciscan Church in Cracow, 1934 [the source].

A photo taken at the ingress of Bishop Adam Sapieha into the Wawel Cathedral on 3 March  1912 [the source].

The High Pontifical Mass celebrated by Archbishop Marian Gołębiewski, the Metropolitan Emieritus of Wrocław, in the Basilica of St. Hedwig and St. Bartholomew in Trzebnica…

Ignacy Dub-Dubowski, the bishop of Lutsk and Zhytomyr, in a beautiful set of pontifical vestments.

The Holy Mass on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of priesthood of Fr. Józef Bigus celebrated in the church of the Assumption of Our…

Field Mass celebrated by Cpt. Fr. Mieczysław Paszkiewicz “Ignatius” in the courtyard at 12 Poznańska Street, probably 15 VIII 1944 [the photo and the description…

Archbishop Karol Wojtyła, the Metropolitan of Kraków, during a High Pontifical Mass celebrated in the Cathedral on Wawel Hill [photo from Orbis Catholicus Secundus].

Priestly ordinations in the archcathedral in Warsaw performed by archbishop Stefan cardinal Wyszyński.

Newly ordained priest gives his parents a blessing after his first Mass. There is a characteristic wreath visible on his sleeve [photo from website of…

Pope John Paul II celebrates Mass at the confession of St. Stanislaus in the Royal Archcathedral Basilica of St. Stanislaus and St. Wenceslaus on Wawel…

Tokarnia, the procession on the Palm Sunday with a statue of Christ on a donkey, 1983. This medieval custom was resurrected in 1968 by the…

Pope Innocent IV, in order to commemorate the martyrdom of many Dominican friars, who were killed by infidels on the Eastern lands of the Polish…

First Solemn Pontifical Mass celebrated in the Cathedral of Christ the King in Katowice on 30 October 1955 by bp. Zdzisław Goliński. In 1981 card.…

Deacon Józef Glemp ordained to the priesthood by bishop Franciszek Jedwabski, the suffragan bishop of the Poznań diocese, in the Cathedral Basilica in Gniezno, on…

The coronation of the statue of Our Lady of Jazłowiec, the patroness of 14th Uhlan Regiment, conducted by the Primate of Poland, Cardinal August Hlond,…

Photocopies from the book Pastorałki i kolendy w czasie świąt Bożego Narodzenia w domach śpiewane (Częstochowa, 1898) are taken from the website of the National…

  Abp. Karol Wojtyła in the summer cappa magna.

The Chief of the State, the first Marshall of Poland Józef Piłsudski, the Primate of the Kingdom of Poland, Aleksander Cardinal Kakowski, and Apostolic Nuncio…

A solemn Mass coram Sanctissimum (this is why the bishop is sitting without mitre) celebrated by abp. Romuald Jałbrzykowski during the feast of Corpus Christi…

As fr. Franciszek Kwiatkowski SI relates in the book Z pogranicza filozofii i teologii. Wykłady dla katolickiej inteligencji: “To thank God for the victory a…