Wrocław Walking Pilgrimage
Polish annual walking pilgrimage
Wrocław Walking Pilgrimage is an annual walking pilgrimage to Jasna Góra from Wrocław held in August. It leaves Wrocław on August 2 and after nine days of walking approximately 230 kilometers enters Częstochowa.
History
Wrocław's Archbishop Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz decided to create the Wrocław Walking Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra in 1981. Before this occurred, groups of pilgrims from Wrocław had already been walking to Jasna Góra since 1956. Between 1977 and 1980 many inhabitants of Wrocław participated in the Warsaw Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra. The Rev. Stanisław Orzechowski, who was responsible for pastoral ministry to university students of the Wawrzyny community, and the Rev. Andrzej Dziełak, minister of the CODA student ministry group, were formally invited to organize this "walking retreat" for the faithful of the Archdiocese of Wrocław. They organized the first "pilgrimage bureaus", which gathered people and necessary equipment as well as disseminated relevant information to parishes.
The first pilgrimages experienced huge difficulties because of a lack of experience as well as new laws and surveillance by the Communist government's intelligence agency, the Służba Bezpieczeństwa.
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