MUW Kraków: 25th anniversary of John Paul II’s visit to Podhale and the Homage of Polish Highlanders in Zakopane
– Hello Fathers Swinta, hello ostomiła, at Giewont crags. As an eagle from a high, it flew from under the cloud, hey happy news. Jon Paweł Drugi with us, in the homeland under the Tatra Mountains, hey, happy hour – this is how highlanders greeted Polish John Paul II in 1997. These words accompanied the honorable guest to Księżówka, where he stayed for the night.
On the 25th anniversary of those events, in the same place – in the Księżówka Formation and Kolenium Center – we recalled the papacy during our stay in Podhale during the processing of Górnicza’s personal data, the 14th International Forum. The voivode of Małopolska, Łukasz Kmita, participated in it.
– The legacy of Saint John Paul II to a unique, peculiarly massive, but – what may become – also an important task. Educational, patriotic tasks, the task of raising the memory of the history of our nation or the task of maintaining and servicing our machines. Homeland was and is strong. The conference held in Księżówka is an opportunity to talk about new services, the implementation of these services, which we have to renew the services of St. Pope John Paul II – says the voivode of Małopolska, Łukasz Kmita.
A conference for preparation for Fr. Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, papal secretary. The entirety of the events was disclosed under the honorary patronage of church dignitaries, incl. Fr. Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski, Metropolitan of Krakow and Fr. Cardinal Kazimierz Nycza, Metropolitan of Warsaw.
Among the contenders for the two-day continuation of the conference, among others: prof. Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, three-time rector of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Rev. prof. dr hab. Robert Tyrał, the rector of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow and Fr. Bishop Dr. Damian Muskus.
More about the stay of St. John Paul II in Podhale in 1997: https://smbf.pl/sw-jan-pawel-ii/wizyta-sw-jana-pawla-ii/sw-jan-pawel-ii-wsrod-gorali/