Ruszamy z Podolan w piątek o 5 rano, po drodze zabierając Wojtka z Niegowici. O 7-mej jesteśmy w Zabrzu skąd zabieramy Andrzeja. Jedziemy pięknym , nowym busem Renault Trafic, który wspaniałomyślnie pożyczył nam brat Andrzeja. .... Okazuje się, że jesteśmy w bezpośrednim pobliżu granicy z Libanem, a miasteczko i hotel nazywa się Maaloula. Błyskawiczne zakwaterowanie i pędem z Iwoną i Piotrem zbiegamy do miasteczka by w ostatnich promieniach słońca zrobić trochę zdjęć. ...
He returned to Poland in the summer of 1948 with his first pastoral assignment in the village of Niegowić, fifteen miles from Kraków. Arriving at Niegowić during harvest time, his first action was to kneel down and kiss the ground. This gesture, adapted from ... On 4 July 1958, while Wojtyła was on a kayaking vacation in the lakes region of northern Poland, he was appointed to the position of auxiliary bishop of Kraków by Pope Pius XII. He was then summoned to Warsaw, ...
At that time, during his vacations, he exercised his pastoral ministry among the Polish immigrants of France, Belgium and Holland. In 1948 he returned to Poland and was vicar of various parishes in Cracow as well as chaplain for the ...