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Collection: Witnesses to the pontificate
Available languages: PL, EN, UK
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Reference code: 419/I/1/7/63
Owner signature: W/63/07/S/52
Title: Primate Józef Glemp about his contacts with John Paul II
Date: 2009-09-19
Size and medium: 519 MB; MP4
Creator's name: The Centre for the Thought of John Paul II
Repository: The Centre for the Thought of John Paul II
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JOURNALIST:
Tomasz Sobiecki
CAMERAMAN:
Sławomir Zajączkowski
Short biographical note:
Józef Glemp (born 1929 in Inowrocław, died 2013. in Warsaw) - Doctor of Laws (ecclesiastical and secular), diocesan bishop of Warmia from 1979 to 1981, archbishop of Gniezno from 1981 to 1992, archbishop of Warsaw from 1981 to 2006, Primate of Poland from 1981 to 2009, chairman of the Polish Episcopal Conference from 1981 to 2004, cardinal priest since 1983, senior archbishop of the Warsaw archdiocese since 2006. Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. In times of acute social conflicts, he undertook mediation, taking part, among others, in the meeting between General Wojciech Jaruzelski and Lech Wałęsa on 4 November 1981. On 13 December 1981, the day martial law was imposed, in order to prevent open fighting, in his sermon delivered at the Church of Our Lady of Grace in Warsaw, he appealed for calm [he mentions these events in an interview].
Summary:
Memories from the period before the election of John Paul II, during the time of accompanying the Primate and Cardinal Wojtyła.
Wojtyła's international trips before the conclave.
Announcement of martial law; attempts at negotiations and meetings with the authorities attended by the interlocutor; trips to the Vatican and informing the Pope about the situation in Poland.
John Paul II's 1983 pilgrimage to Poland during the martial law.
Papal teaching (a continuation of Vatican Council II), his official speeches and close contact with the people, his skill with words.
Prayer of John Paul II, including at Wawel Castle in 2002.
Some memories of pilgrimages.
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