Word: czestochowa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walesa had expected to meet the Pope on Sunday in Czestochowa, where John Paul celebrated the 600th anniversary of the Black Madonna, Poland's holiest religious painting. But Walesa stood by his telephone in Gdansk all day waiting for the summons that did not come...
...Pope's presence. At curbsides or huddled together in windows or on balconies, their faces reflected sullen amazement, fearful wonder and, finally, bittersweet joy. In an extraordinary pageant of the spirit, they gathered a million strong for Mass in a Warsaw stadium. When John Paul went to Czestochowa a million more covered the grassy slopes around the Jasna Gora monastery. Some Poles held banners in red and white, indiscriminately mixing religion and politics in messages such as HOPE-SOLIDARITY and YOU ARE THE REAL FATHER OF SOLIDARITY. Others laid flowers along the papal path or held up plain wooden...
...worsening internal climate inspired pessimism in Rome, where Pope John Paul II for the first time publicly cast doubt on his plans to travel to Poland in June. Praying to Our Lady of Czestochowa, Poland's most revered religious image, the Pope said, "To you I entrust if and how [the visit] will take place." The "if," said Vatican officials, reflected the Pope's concern that the recent developments might force him to cancel his visit...
...Free Walesa, or make it possible for him to speak as a free man." When Archbishop Jozef Glemp uttered those words from a balcony of the medieval monastery at Czestochowa last week, more than 350,000 worshipers burst into prolonged cheers and applause, many of them raising their hands in victory signs. The pilgrims had come from every corner of Poland to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the "Black Madonna," the Roman Catholic nation's holiest shrine. As the government prepared to clamp down this week on demonstrations to mark the second anniversary of the creation of the independent...
Glemp, the Polish Primate, told a crowd of well over 100,000 pilgrims in Czestochowa: "The dialogue could begin to build toward an agreement and relieve the hatred that can sometimes be invisible when people keep silent and grind their teeth...