St. Mary’s Basilica in Kraków St. Mary’s Basilica in Kraków, photo: Andrzej Rubis / Forum The second most important shrine in Poland’s former capital is the church of the Assumption of the Blessed ...

The story goes that during the Tatar invasion of Poland in 1241, a sentry was playing St Mary’s Trumpet Call from the church tower to warn the inhabitants of Kraków about the enemy troops nearing the ...

On April 11, the Catholic Church honors the memory of the 11th-century bishop and martyr St. Stanislaus of Krakow ... brought him into conflict with Poland’s ruler, King Boleslaus II, who ...

When John Paul first came to Poland in June 1979 – a pilgrimage that has awakened the sense of freedom in the nation – people ...