Polish Primate CARDINAL STEFAN WYSZNSKI will be beatified on June 7, 2020 in a ceremony held at the Pilsudskiego Square Warsaw
Cardinal Wyszynski had been the primate of Poland
Born in 1901, his family counted itself among the nobility of Poland, Lublin
He became a priest in 1924 and was made the bishop ofLublin Gniezno and Warsaw
He celebrated his first Solemn High Mass of Thanksgiving, at Jasna Góra in Częstochowa, a place of special spiritual significance for many Catholic Poles. The Pauline monastery there holds the picture of the Black Madonna, or Our Lady of Częstochowa, the patron saint and guardian of Poland. Father Wyszyński spent the next four years in Lublin Europe , where he furthered his education.
He became a priest in 1924 and was made the bishop of
His 1953 arrest was one of the most dramatic events of the communist period. It followed the parallel detention of church leaders in Croatia , Hungary and Czechoslovakia Poland from 1948 until his death in 1981, spent three years under house arrest in the 1950s because of his opposition to Poland Poland
In 1958, he informed a 38-year-old Karol Wojtyla that the pope had appointed him as the auxiliary bishop of Krakow .
When then-Cardinal Wojtyla was named to first world Synod of Bishops in 1968, he stayed home to protest the government's denial of a passport to Cardinal Wyszynski. When cardinals were meeting in the Sistine Chapel in October 1978, the Polish pope recalled that Cardinal Wyszynski had approached him and implored, "If they elect you, I beg you not to refuse.''To many he was the unquestionable leader of the Polish nation (the uncrowned king of Poland
The cardinal, who had heard of the assassination attempt on the pope, offered his own life for that of the pontiff's.
Cardinal Wyszynski died at the age of 79 in 1981.
To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his death, the year 2001 was announced by the Sejm (Polish parliment) as the Year of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. The Sejm also honored the Cardinal as a "great Pole, chaplain and statesman".