In one of his first addresses to the people of Poland as pope, St. John Paul II would praise the man who was like a father to him: “In the Chair of Peter there would not be a Polish pope who today, full of the fear of God but also full of confidence, begins a new pontificate, if it had not been for your faith, which never retreated during imprisonment and suffering, your heroic hope, your unceasing trust in the Mother of the Church….”
These photos are from Wyszyński’s first place of house arrest – Our Lady of Rywald Church, where there is a Capuchin friary in Northern Poland. I visited there, and the church and friary have a small museum, and have preserved the Cardinal’s room where he made his own Stations of the Cross.
– friar Brad Milunski OFM Conv.