Karol Wojtyła w Ziemi Świętej

Abstract

A pilgrim setting off on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to its focal point Jerusalem wishes first of all to meet Christ. For this is His Land, the land of His birth, wanderings, teaching, Passion, death and Resurrection. One of the pilgrims to the Holy Land was Karol Wojtyła, later John Paul II. His pontiff pilgrimage to the Holy Land is known better, so the article deals with the pilgrimage which bishop Karol Wojtyła undertook in 1963. On the basis of the Letter to Priests o f the Cracow Archdiocese of January 1964 the author of the paper attempts to recreate the events of the pilgrimage (Karol Wojtyła describes it according to the chronological events from Christ's life) and comment on the description of various places. Fragments of a poem in which bishop Wojtyła included his impressions of the meeting with the Holy Land are quoted.