Celebrations on the 70th anniversary of the card return. Stefan Wyszynski to Warsaw
date:27 October 2026 Editor: Anna
Wednesday 28 October marks the 70th anniversary of the return of the cardinals. Stefan Wyszyński to Warsaw after 3 years of illegal internment. The celebrations commemorating this anniversary will be held at the Warsaw Archikatedre and seminary church.
The Warsaw Metropolitan Archbishop Adrian Galbas will preside at 5 p.m. of the solemn Eucharist in the Warsaw Archikatedra. After the Holy Mass, the anniversary celebrations will proceed in the seminary church in Krakowskie Przedmieście. At 19.30 a symphonic performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be held.
Card. Stefan Wyszyński – Primate of Poland
Stefan Wyszyński was born on 3 August 1901 in Zuzela nad Bug. He was Stanisław's second kid (1876-1970) and Julianna Wyszyński (1877-1910) from Karp's home. My father was an organist. “I have found my Father many times – whom God has given deep religiousness and the gift of prayer – right here, in front of the image of Our woman of Czestochowa. Here he spent moments free from many works on the construction of the church" - said the cardinals. Stefan Wyszynski in his family's Zuzela on June 13, 1971.
Since 1920 Stefan Wyszyński has been educated in the Higher Seminary in Włocławek. He accepted priestly ordination in 1924 at the hands of Bishop Wojciech Owczark in the Cathedral in Włocławek, and celebrated the Holy Mass at Jasna Góra. In 1946 he became bishop of Lublin, and in 1948 Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw Metropolitan and Primate of Poland.
Archbishop Wyszyński received a cardinalial nomination in 1952, but the communist authorities refused to go to the consistory convened by Pius XII for 12 January 1953 in Rome. The Cardinal's Insignia was not received until 4 years later in 1957.
Arrest
The Primate of the Millennium was arrested by SB officers on September 25, 1953 (the celebration of the patron saint of Blessed Władysław of Gielniów was celebrated that day). This decision was made the day before at the gathering of the Polish Government. So he recalled this minute of arrest in “prison records”:
“By the power of this decision I am to be immediately removed from the city. I will not be allowed to carry out any activities related to the positions held so far." And then, “I came to the chapel for a minute to look at the tabernacle and at my parent of God in a stained glass. We went down. From the door again I looked at the image of Our woman of Jasna Góra, hanging over the entrance to the Papal Hall, one more time I protested and went out to the car.”
In his records, he emphasized that his priestly ministry did not end erstwhile he left the home on Honeymoon. After interning, the Polish Church was stripped of the shepherd, but “God has all right to require all sacrifice, and the career in the Church requires readiness to go with Christ and on the cross, and to prison.” The Primate of the Millennium emphasized that the bishop did his work not only at the altar or on the pulpit, but besides in prison. "So it is not a waste of time to be in prison for the name of Christ," he noted.
The Jasna Góra Vows of the Nation
While interning the cards. Wyszynski initiated large pastoral programs: the large Novena before the Millennium of Polish Baptism and the Jasna Góra Vows of the Polish Nation. Their genesis was connected with the 3 hundredth anniversary of John Kazimierz's vows, which in the cathedral of Lviv gave to Mary the full nation, as a thank-you for defending Jasna Góra from Swedes. Paulini proposed to renew their vows, which was agreed by the main committee of the Polish Episcopal Conference in 1955.
Prymas Wyszyński refused to compose the text of the vows in prison due to the fact that he did not want to legitimize isolation, but changed his head under the influence of alleged eights – Maria Okonska and Janina Michalska, who stayed in Komańcza for 3 months – from 24 March to 24 June. "In the end, he was convinced by our argument that St. Paul wrote the most beautiful letters from prison," Okonska recalled.
Back to Warsaw
Card. Stefan Wyszyński was imprisoned for 3 years by communist authorities in Rywałd, Stoczek Warmiński, Prudnik and Komańcza. Card internment. Wyszynski ended on October 28, 1956. This was due to political changes in Poland after Bolesław Bierut's death and changes in the PZPR, headed by Władysław Gomulka. The Communists hoped that the release of the Primate would calm social sentiments.
On the same evening, the Primate of the Millennium returned to the home of the Archbishops of Warsaw, blessed the crowd of believers from the balcony. “The way through which the Church and the nation went was dense and painful. But we went through it in patience," he wrote in a letter to the believers that day.
The Primate of the Millennium returned to his ministry. He served for more than 30 years until his death in 1981. His grave is located in the Warsaw Archikatedre.
The beatification of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski took place on 12 September 2021 in Warsaw. His liturgical memory is celebrated on May 28.
Source: https://archwwa.pl/
Stefan Wyszyński was born on 3 August 1901 in Zuzela nad Bug. He was Stanisław's second kid (1876-1970) and Julianna Wyszyński (1877-1910) from Karp's home. My father was an organist. “I have found my Father many times – whom God has given deep religiousness and the gift of prayer – right here, in front of the image of Our woman of Czestochowa. Here he spent moments free from many works on the construction of the church" - said the cardinals. Stefan Wyszynski in his family's Zuzela on June 13, 1971.
Since 1920 Stefan Wyszyński has been educated in the Higher Seminary in Włocławek. He accepted priestly ordination in 1924 at the hands of Bishop Wojciech Owczark in the Cathedral in Włocławek, and celebrated the Holy Mass at Jasna Góra. In 1946 he became bishop of Lublin, and in 1948 Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw Metropolitan and Primate of Poland.
Archbishop Wyszyński received a cardinalial nomination in 1952, but the communist authorities refused to go to the consistory convened by Pius XII for 12 January 1953 in Rome. The Cardinal's Insignia was not received until 4 years later in 1957.
Arrest
The Primate of the Millennium was arrested by SB officers on September 25, 1953 (the celebration of the patron saint of Blessed Władysław of Gielniów was celebrated that day). This decision was made the day before at the gathering of the Polish Government. So he recalled this minute of arrest in “prison records”:
“By the power of this decision I am to be immediately removed from the city. I will not be allowed to carry out any activities related to the positions held so far." And then, “I came to the chapel for a minute to look at the tabernacle and at my parent of God in a stained glass. We went down. From the door again I looked at the image of Our woman of Jasna Góra, hanging over the entrance to the Papal Hall, one more time I protested and went out to the car.”
In his records, he emphasized that his priestly ministry did not end erstwhile he left the home on Honeymoon. After interning, the Polish Church was stripped of the shepherd, but “God has all right to require all sacrifice, and the career in the Church requires readiness to go with Christ and on the cross, and to prison.” The Primate of the Millennium emphasized that the bishop did his work not only at the altar or on the pulpit, but besides in prison. "So it is not a waste of time to be in prison for the name of Christ," he noted.
The Jasna Góra Vows of the Nation
While interning the cards. Wyszynski initiated large pastoral programs: the large Novena before the Millennium of Polish Baptism and the Jasna Góra Vows of the Polish Nation. Their genesis was connected with the 3 hundredth anniversary of John Kazimierz's vows, which in the cathedral of Lviv gave to Mary the full nation, as a thank-you for defending Jasna Góra from Swedes. Paulini proposed to renew their vows, which was agreed by the main committee of the Polish Episcopal Conference in 1955.
Prymas Wyszyński refused to compose the text of the vows in prison due to the fact that he did not want to legitimize isolation, but changed his head under the influence of alleged eights – Maria Okonska and Janina Michalska, who stayed in Komańcza for 3 months – from 24 March to 24 June. "In the end, he was convinced by our argument that St. Paul wrote the most beautiful letters from prison," Okonska recalled.
Back to Warsaw
Card. Stefan Wyszyński was imprisoned for 3 years by communist authorities in Rywałd, Stoczek Warmiński, Prudnik and Komańcza. Card internment. Wyszynski ended on October 28, 1956. This was due to political changes in Poland after Bolesław Bierut's death and changes in the PZPR, headed by Władysław Gomulka. The Communists hoped that the release of the Primate would calm social sentiments.
On the same evening, the Primate of the Millennium returned to the home of the Archbishops of Warsaw, blessed the crowd of believers from the balcony. “The way through which the Church and the nation went was dense and painful. But we went through it in patience," he wrote in a letter to the believers that day.
The Primate of the Millennium returned to his ministry. He served for more than 30 years until his death in 1981. His grave is located in the Warsaw Archikatedre.
The beatification of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski took place on 12 September 2021 in Warsaw. His liturgical memory is celebrated on May 28.
Source: https://archwwa.pl/
