Wpływ sanktuariów i pielgrzymek na religijność Polaków po II Soborze Watykańskim

Abstract

The author of the article is presenting the history of pilgrimages and the genesis of the existence of religious sanctuaries of different kind in Poland after the II Vatican Council. Appealing to the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church is pointing at relations occurring between them. It is also showing a role going on a pilgrimages is playing with reference to the pastoral activity, affecting the forming of the religiousness of Poles in XX and at the beginning of the 21st century. The author is showing the image of the pilgrimaging in the wide context, as well as their, both indirect and direct influence, for the forming of the religiousness of Polish Catholics. And although the pilgrimage movement to Polish sanctuaries, after 1945, was characterized by different increasing, it is however a post-war period being marked by an intensification of the pilgrimaging, constitutes the important component of sociological and religious understanding the Polish phenomenon of Catholicism.