Kapliczka - Krakow, Poland - Waychapels on Waymarking.com

It was at this chapel that Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II, said his daily prayer in the years 1938-44.

The small chapel is a rectangular, white-painted building with an arched back. A decorative door on the front. The chapel has a red roof and a small spire with a cross.
Various religious images and crosses. (visit link)


Sign with the following text:

"KAPLICZKA
pod wezwaniem Trójcy Przenajswietszej
To przy tej kapliczce w latach 1938-44 Karol Wojtyla, pózniejszy papiez Jan Pawel II, odmawial codzienna modlitwe zatrzymujac sie w drodze do pracy w fabryce Solvay."

"CHAPEL
under the invocation of the Holy Trinity
It was at this chapel that Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II, said his daily prayer in the years 1938-44 while stopping on his way to work at the Solvay factory."


Saint John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyla 18 May 1920, died 2 April 2005, was Pope from October 1978. John Paul II was the first non-Italian in 455 years to be elected Pope.

Karol was born in Wadowice, about 50 km southwest of Kraków. When his mother, an older brother and a younger sister died of illness, he grew up alone with his father. At school, Karol was a very bright student and also distinguished himself in sports.
In 1938 he moved to Krakow with his father and began studying at the university. When German and Russian forces occupied Poland in 1938, the Polish intellectuals were regarded as potential rioters. The professors at the university were deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, while the students were assigned to various jobs. Karol was first sent to a limestone quarry and from 1942 he worked in the water purification department of the Solvay factory in Borek Falecki in Krakow.
Many of the students had problems coping with the heavy work and were sent to the concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau. Thanks to his active lifestyle before the outbreak of war, Karol was strong and thus managed to avoid the death camps.
And it was during the daily trip from home to Solvay's factory that he visited the little chapel. (visit link)

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