On August 16, 2020 at noon a solemn Eucharist will take place at the Sanctuary along with the worship of Our Lady of Grace, The Guardian of Poland.
The sanctuary is a thanksgiving vote for the Polish victory and for the great Pole – John Paul II. Over here, at the Radzymin fields where the Battle of Warsaw took place, we can finally after many years of communist silence commemorate the great squabble of our ancestors who defended Poland from the Bolshevik storm. Our army stopped the Bolshevik procession, saving the just-reclaimed Polish Independence and protecting Europe from the flood of communism. The faith of the command and the nation was immense – it led to the Polish Victoria, to the Miracle on the Vistula River.
On June 13, 1999, John Paul II met in Radzymin veterans of the Battle of Warsaw and prayed on the graves of the fallen in defense of Warsaw. He then left us words that should lead us:
“You know I was born in 1920, in May, at the time when the Bolsheviks were going to Warsaw. And, that is why I carry in myself from birth a great debt to those who then took the fight against the invader and won, paying for it with their lives. Here, in this cemetery, their mortal remains are resting. I come here with great gratitude, as if paying off the debt for what I received from them.”
During the ceremony, on August 16, 2020 we will dedicate a 3-meter statue of Our Lady of Grace – saint patron of Warsaw, which is set on a 7-meter pedestal right next to the Sanctuary. It will be visible to all who will be about to enter Warsaw from the east.
Fr. Krzysztof Ziółkowski – curator of the John Paul II Shrine in Radzymin
