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Polish Waves
13.06.2025 08:00

Polish Waves - FAMOUS POLE - POLISH POPE

Catholic community around the world has recently welcomed a new Pope - cardinal from America. In our programe this month we recall with warm hearts our famous Pole - the Polish Pope, whose papacy lasted 27 years and was the longest reign in modern history. Who was He?

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Dzień dobry from Poland.

You have just joined us on a journey to learn something about our home country Poland.

A cardinal from Poland?

For the last two centuries, again and again, Poland has been brutally partitioned and devoured by its neighbors.

In Stalinist era Poland it was not permitted for priests to travel with group of students, so Wojtyła

In 1958 Wojtyła was holidaying with young people on a kayak trip at Mazurian Lakes, east of Poland.

In Poland, Karol Wojtyła is remembered as the Pope of the Poles, the protector of their spiritual sovereignty and their national independence, like protecting one's mother.

On one of his trips to Poland in 1983, in his speech at Warsaw Okęcie Airport, he said, Poland is a special mother.

For example, he personally experienced the dramatic and harrowing history of his country Poland.

As Pope clearly points out, Poland has always been strongly present in Europe.

He visited his motherland, Poland, eight times.

Who came to New Zealand in 1882, ten years after his brother Matthew Szymanski's arrival here in 1872 from the Pomeranian area of Poland.

There were small children dressed in national dress of Poland.

The weather cleared and at appropriate times we could hear the Polish national anthem being enthusiastically sung and see the red and white flags of Poland fluttering in the breeze.