Percepcja zwycięskiej wizji maryjnej kard. Augusta Hlonda w posłudze pasterskiej prymasa Stefana Wyszyńskiego i błogosławionego Jana Pawła II

Abstract

This contribution sets out to present an interesting aspect of the life of Card. Augusto Hlond, which shows his unfailing faith in the intercession of Mary in the history of mankind. It is an examination of the impact of the prophetic vision of the victory of Mary over the atheistic communist political system, which Card. Hlond had before he died. The socio-political circumstances of the origin of that way of seeing things are mentioned. At the centre of the study is the extraordinary effects in the pastoral activity of Card. Wyszyński and the Polish Bishops. In fact Card. Wyszyński recognised the powerful unaccustomed creative force of the prophecy of Mary of Victory in planning and implementing an extremely effective pastoral programme of moral renewal and of the evangelisation of Polish society, especially in view of the preparation of the Polish Nation for the Millennium of Baptisim (1966), through the Great Novena to the Madonna. This Marian dimension of pastoral activity – that, despite the criticisms, was totally concentrated on Christ – also made a decisive contribution to what non-Catholics were saying in the defence of the freedom of Polish citizens, and received a positive response outside Poland. In addition to that, the article also refers to the perception of this Marian prophecy in the Petrine ministry of John Paul II, who on not a few occasions mentioned this victorious vision of Mary by Card. Hlond. Although it is not spoken of explicitly, nevertheless a direct connection between Hlond, Wyszyński and John Paul II is to be understood: the particular Marian dimension of their pastoral activity. The link is explicitly confirmed in the three stained glasss windows – containing their images – placed in the second section of the chapel that contains the venerated Icon of the Black Madonna (Czestochowa–Jasna Góra).