Word: kazimiera
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...popular promenade. Nowhere perhaps is the correspondence between art and life more striking than in the New Town Market Square (see color opposite). There stands the lovely baroque Church of the Nuns of the Holy Sacrament, completed in 1687 in fulfillment of a vow made by Queen Maria Kazimiera as her husband, King John Sobieski, rode into battle against the Turks (he won). In August 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, the entire church and its adjacent convent were leveled by bombs and artillery shells, burying 35 nuns, four priests, and 4,000 civilian rebels under the wreckage...