At the Licheń Sanctuary, we were looking forward to the beatification of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. In recent days we have been preparing for this event by praying in the novena.
The Primate of the Millennium was an important person in the history of Lichen. “I remember that when I was here years ago, I was given the task to write down the favors experienced by the worshipers of Mary of Licheń. In the burial cemetery, by the chapel, there was a table, at which I sat for several hours, writing down in a book everything that God's people lived and experienced here. It was a great book "- recalled Cardinal Wyszyński in a speech to young people in 1967 in Licheń. Unfortunately, the above-mentioned notes have not survived - they were destroyed during World War II. This was one of the reasons why Bishop Antoni Pawłowski, while preparing the coronation of the Lichen icon, asked the Primate of the Millennium to support his request to the Pope. During the coronation, Wyszyński recalled this fact as follows: “I had the opportunity to repay the debt of gratitude for spending months at this altar as a young alumnus. At that time, I was teaching your catechism to your little children. Maybe today they are parents with their own children. It was then that I became more closely associated with the sanctuary of Our Lady of Licheń. "
The elevation of the Servants of God to the altars was preceded by a statement by Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, a request to the Holy Father to include Primate Wyszyński and mother Czacka among the blessed. The metropolitan of Warsaw also presented their biographies.
Then the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Card. Marcello Semeraro delivered the beatification formula in Latin.
Its Polish translation was read to the faithful by Bishop Michał Janocha:
“We, Pope Francis, fulfilling the desires of Our Brother Kazimierz Nycz, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Metropolitan Archbishop of Warsaw, as well as many other bishopric brothers and numerous lay faithful, on the advice of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, authorize with our apostolic authority that the Venerable Servant of God STEFAN WYSZYŃSKI, Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, Primate of Poland, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Shepherd according to the Heart of Christ, who devoted his life to the one God and was a tireless defender and herald of the dignity of every human being, as well as the Venerable Handmaid of God ELŻBIETA CZACKA (in the world: the Rose) The founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters, Handmaids of the Cross, who, deprived of the use of the light of her eyes, recognized Christ with the eyes of faith - the light of the world and with loving fidelity testified about Him to those who walked in the darkness of body and spirit, were henceforth called Blessed and that their memories could be celebrated every year in places and in the manner prescribed by law, namely: for the first day of the twenty-eighth May and for the second day of the nineteenth May. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Given in Rome, in the Lateran, on the fifteenth day of August, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Year of the Lord 2021, in the ninth year of our Pontificate. "
The participants of the ceremony answered with singing the prayer "Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit." At this time, the images of the new blesseds were unveiled.
The image of Bl. Stefan Wyszyński was unveiled by the members of the Apostolic Movement "Family of Families" founded by him in 1952 - Hanna Kordyasz and Piotr Kordyasz, the famous author of the book "Stefek" about the childhood of card. Stefan Wyszyński.
The image of Bl. Elżbieta Czacka was unveiled by Sr. Aleksandra Maczuga and Sr. Klara Zosik, teachers and tutors from the School and Educational Center of the Society for the Care of the Blind in Laski.
The image of Bl. Stefan Wyszyński was unveiled by the members of the Apostolic Movement "Family of Families" founded by him in 1952 - Hanna Kordyasz and Piotr Kordyasz, the famous author of the book "Stefek" about the childhood of card. Stefan Wyszyński.
The image of Bl. Elżbieta Czacka was unveiled by Sr. Aleksandra Maczuga and Sr. Klara Zosik, teachers and tutors from the School and Educational Center of the Society for the Care of the Blind in Laski.
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