At the Eucharist, in addition to the Delegate of the Holy Father Msgr. Jan Romeo Pawłowski and Msgr. Andrzej Dzięga, several bishops participated, including Rt. Rev Henryk Wejman, Rt. Rev. Krzysztof Włodarczyk, and Rt. Rev Marian Blażej Kruszyłowicz. Also present were Fr Tadeusz Itrych, Superior of the Piła Province, and Fr Marcin Możejko, Provincial Economer.

The ceremony was also attended by Mrs. Anna Rastawicka, a propagator of the teachings of the "Millennium Primate", as Blessed Wyszyński was called. Mrs. Rastawicka, who worked for many years in the Secretariat of the "Millennium Primate", a witness to his heroic life.

The celebration was preceded by the recitation of the Holy Rosary, by concerts and conferences, conducted by the Salesian Fr Jarosław Wąsowicz. After the Holy Mass, refreshments were served for pilgrims, and there was a concert by the Polish army orchestra and the "Soli Deo" choir from Kobylanka. Saturday ended with a prayer to Our Lady of Jasna Góra.

The following day, the parish community experienced a solemn celebration on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the priesthood of the former parish priest, Fr Kazimierz Drynikowski, SDB. After the Holy Mass, presided over by the Provincial Fr Tadeusz Itrych, a parish celebration for families and children took place.

In Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski was always considered a saint and the father of his homeland, which he did not abandon when it was occupied by the Nazis and which he defended against communism. He was not only an outstanding spiritual leader, but also a "head of state", a moral authority. In March 1946 he was appointed bishop of Lublin, and in his episcopal coat of arms he placed the words "Soli Deo", to the one God. After the death of August Hlond, a Salesian, in 1948 he was appointed archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and Primate of Poland. Created cardinal in January 1953, he paid for the defense of the Church with a prison sentence. Faced with the imposition of a regime that would have taken away his religious freedom, he did not remain silent, he wrote, he expressed his opposition to it and for this he was re-arrested and spent three years in prison, from 1953 to 1956. The "Primate of the Millennium" died on May 28, 1981, in Warsaw. His funeral became a national demonstration and representatives of the communist regime also attended.

The beatification process of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski began as early as 1989. In October 2019, Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a decree on the miracle of healing a 19-year-old woman from thyroid cancer, at which the doctors had not given any chance of recovery. The beatification took place on 12 September 2021 in Warsaw.

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