First visit to Poland led to Iron Curtain’s fall, historians say 45 years after St. John Paul II landmark trip
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By Filip Mazurczak , OSV News KRAKÓW, Poland (OSV News) — Forty-five years ago, on June 2, St. John Paul II started his first papal pilgrimage to his native Poland, then shackled by a communist dictatorship. The visit had not only an enormous impact on the spiritual renewal of the Polish nation, paving the way […] The post First visit to Poland led to Iron Curtain’s fall, historians say 45 years after St. John Paul II landmark trip first appeared on OSV News.

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