Pope’s historic pilgrimage to Poland in photos
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
30.05.2019 07:55
An open-air photo exhibition documenting the late Pope John Paul II’s first pilgrimage to his native Poland opens on Thursday along Warsaw’s so-called Royal Route, close to the Old Town quarter.
Pope John Paul IIPhoto: Eric Draper (whitehouse.gov) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
It marks the 40th anniversary of the nine-day pilgrimage, which started on June 2, 1979, less than eight months after the election of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyła to the highest office in the Roman Catholic church.
The photos on display are the work of the late Italian photographer, writer and traveller Carlo Leidi, who accompanied the pope on his visit.
The exhibit also features Leidi’s personal reminiscences of the pilgrimage and excerpts from the pope’s homilies delivered 40 years ago in Warsaw, Kraków and the former Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Prominently displayed are the last words from John Paul II’s homily in Warsaw: “Let the Holy Spirit descend and transform the face of the earth, the face of this land.”
The exhibition runs until June 19. Captions are available in Polish, English and Italian. (mk/pk)