Urn with the ashes of Karol Czorowska
Urn with the ashes of Karolina Kaczorowska, widow of the last Polish president-in-exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski, your admission to the Holy Sacrament chapel in the Temple of Divine Providence. Funeral and controversy are held there in the execution of the execution.
The urn with Karolczorowska’s ashes was transported to the Temple of Providence from the Military Airport in Warsaw’s Okęcie, where on Friday afternoon government Christmas from London. On the plaques honored state records of the Republic of Poland, as well as the authorities and state institutions, including Jan Józef Kasprzyk – the head of the Veterans Affairs and Persons of Repression, who is the organizer of state states.
Speaking before, Kasprzyk Skłonność, Pola, that with this funeral “in a sense, they are saying goodbye to the Second Polish Republic”. “Today, gathering at the urn with the ashes of President Karolina Kaczorowska, we thank her for a wonderful life, full of testimonies of love for God, for the Republic of Poland, for another human being. Christian and Latin civilization. Do not lose faith, hope and love, although her life – like the life of the brightest Republic of Poland – was full of dramatic and consolidating “- he said.
The Government Plenipotentiary for the Polish Diaspora Abroad, Jan Dziedziczak, pointed to the example of the title of Karolina Kaczorowska. “The First Lady is an example of a half generation, graduates of scouting. She grew up in scouting, met her husband in scouting, started a family. In scouting she raised her children, her parents. what is next to us, the attitude of being indifferent to Polish matters, Christian matters (…). Wherever she appeared, she wanted to be active, she wanted to have “- he reminded.
After 3.30 pm the urn was placed overlapping in the temple of the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. There, funeral executions and vespers are held under the chairmanship of the Jasna Góra Chaplain of the Soldiers of Independence, Fr. prof. Eustachy Rakoczy. In the evening, after 19, the urn will be moved to the catafalque in front of the altar – there will be a mass mourning for the peace of mind of the presidential couple. Schedule a Scout Prayer Vigil. Do h. 22 people who do polls, polls, polls and poll news for novelties and condolences.
The main funeral features of Karolina Kaczorowska will be held in preparation and will be open. Holy Mass the funeral will start at 12. It will be chaired by the Metropolitan of Warsaw, Card. Kazimierz Nycz, the homily will be delivered by the field bishop of the Polish Army, Wiesław Lechowicz, a long-term delegate of the Polish Episcopate for Polonia. After the mass the funeral procession will go to the burial place of the deceased. Karolina Kaczorowska will rest next to her husband in the Great Pantheon, which is located in the basement of the Temple of Divine Providence.
September 24, 1930. September 24, 1930 Karolina Kaczorowska, née Mariampolska. in Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine). After the Soviet army had seized the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic, in 1940 he and his family were transported to Siberia. She left the Soviet Union with the Anders Army, her father, brother and future husband Ryszard Kaczorowski were the soldiers.
com, how much, Iran ended up in a school for Polish children, in a settlement where a class went to a Polish school. She stayed there until the end of the 1940s. After coming to Great Britain, she studied at the University of London. Then she worked as a teacher, she also devoted herself to scouting activities, and on this occasion she met her found husband, who was to get married in 1952. They had two children: Alicja and Jadwiga Jagoda, they also had five grandchildren.
At the side of her husband, she was involved in the life of Polish migration, she was involved, inter alia, in the charity work of the Union of Polish Women in Great Britain. On July 19, 1989, when Kaczorowski took over the President of the Republic of Poland in Exile, Ryszard made him the Lady in Exile. She was the last to play this role, because a year and a half later, in 1990, in return, Ryszard Kaczorowski handed over the presidential insignia to Lech Wałęsa, elected in the first democratic elections for ten offices.
April 10, 2010 together with the registration in force in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Katyn anniversary, with the focus on resigning from participation in the celebration. So her husband went on the journey alone and – like all the passengers of the presidential Tupolev – he died. In 2012, she was awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
She died on August 21, 2021 in London.