On Saturday, they began construction. They worked all day: women, men, children and on Sunday evening the church was completed. Of course, it was a very modest temple, but how much effort and work were put to have it completed! The local authorities in retaliation cut off the electricity, blocked the road leading to the village, but the people, after all, did not give way. At night, the construction site was lit by burning car tires. A roster was established to guard the church from the unwanted Security Service. They were overseeing it and praying while working on it. This was everyday life in Poland during communism. They fought to build a church – a place of worship. They fought for the education of the clergy after the Faculty of Theology at the Jagiellonian University was abolished by order of the authorities in 1954, which created in return the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw – a university completely ruled by the state. It was done to control the education of future priests in a Marxist spirit. As a result, they wanted to subjugate it to the communist state and annihilate the Catholic religion. Cardinal Wojtyła ensured that the Faculty of Theology in Kraków, expelled from the Jagiellonian University, survived in the seminary and, over time, received the status of papal faculty. This gave independence and made it possible to award degrees and academic titles to the clergy and to prepare an educated and competent clergy, along the lines of higher education.
With the consent of Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz – “Testimony”.
TBA marketing communication Publishing House. Warsaw 2007
