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JOHN PAUL II
John Paul II (lat. Ioannes Paulus II),
born Karol Józef Wojtyła (May 18, 1920 in Wadowice), died April 2, 2005 in Vatican City) – a
Polish Roman Catholic clergyman, The Archbishop of Krakow, a cardinal and a pope (from
October 16, 1978 to April 2, 2005), recognized as a Servant of God by the Catholic Church (he
will be canonized on April 27, 2014), Knight of the Order of the White Eagle.
He was a poet and a linguist, as well as an actor, a playwright and a teacher. A philosopher of
history, a phenomenologist and a mystic, he was also a theorist of Christian personalism.
He is considered to be the greatest Pole of modern times and one of the most charismatic
people of the 20th century.
As a Pope he visited Poland six times, and on the World Youth Day in 1991 he met with young
people gathered by the Jasna Góra Monastery. It was attented by more than 1,5 billion pilgrims
from over 60 countries.
On August 15, 1991, during the 4th World Youth Day, the Holy Father received the Honorary
Citizenship of Czestochowa in the Knights' Hall of the Jasna Gora Monastery.
Częstochowa was the first city in the world to give the honorary citizenship to the Polish Pope.
The city authorities were present during the ceremony as well as the twin town delegations
from: Lourdes, Loreto, Altötting and Pforzheim. The key to the city and a copy of the Citizenship
Certificate were placed in the Jasna Gora Monastery and the Czestochowa Museum.
Visits of The Holy Father John Paul II in Częstochowa:
June 4-6, 1979
June 18-21, 1983
June 12-13, 1987
August 14-16, 1991
June 4, 1997
June 17, 1999
August 19, 2002
RYSZARD KACZOROWSKI
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Ryszard Kaczorowski of Jelita
(born October 26, 1919 in Białystok, died April 10, 2010 in Smoleńsk) – a Polish politician,
social social activist and scout, head of the Białystok banner of the Szare Szeregi in 1940, after
1945 in exile, member of the National Council of Poland, from 1989 to 1990 President of Poland
in Exile.
He was arrested by NKVD and sentenced to death, which was later changed to 10 years in a
concentration camp . Following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement he was set free and enlisted in
the General Władysław Anders' Army. He fought in many battles, like the Battle of Monte
Cassino. After the war he was the Chief Scout, and, subsequently, President of the émigré
Polish Scouting Union (ZHP), presided the Polish delegation for the International Jubilee
Jamboree and the World Scout Jamboree on Monte Cassino and in Belgium. Died tragically on
April 10, 2010,in a crash of Polish airplane Tu-154 in Smoleńsk, with the presidential couple
- Maria and Lech Kaczyński - on the way to ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of
the Katyn massacre.
MARIE and PIERRE CHAUBON
Lourdes was the first town in West
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Europe which the local government of Czestochowa decided to cooperate with after the local
elections in 1989.
Pierre Chaubon, the then councilor of Lourdes, contacted the Citizen's Comittee „Solidarity” at
request of the mayor of Lourdes. As a result a twin town agreement between two Marian
centres, Czestochowa and Lourdes, was signed on August 5, 1990, a few months after the
elections.
In the same year Marie-Thérèse Chaubon funded the „L'Etoile Bleue” society, which initial aim
was to provide humanitarian aid to our town.
Yet, the society's activity had taken other forms, like support for restoring the local government
in Poland, training for office workers, doctors, students of hotel management and treasurers of
Czestochowa voivodeship.
Supported by Marie-Thérèse Chaubon, who worked as a spokesman for Częstochowa with the
following mayors of Lourdes, and her society, the cooperation between the citizens of Lourdes
and Częstochowa could develop in such fields as culture (art and photography exhibitions, plein
air painting workshops for artists and young people), youth exchange, tourism, health and
sports. Those relations resulted in many international congresses and seminars dedicated to
medicine, tourism, pilgrimage and european integration issues, as well as in the implementation
of common projects subsidized by the European Union.
The Chaubons promoted a favourable image of our town in France. Due to their actions, the
agreement between the towns' authorities resulted in direct relations between the local
communities: associations, cultural communities, schools and sport clubs. For this activity and
her contribution to French-Polish relationship the leader of „L'Etoile Bleue”, Marie-Thérèse
Chaubon was earlier decorated by the Polish President with the Order of Merit of the Republic
of Poland and by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs with the National Order of Merit.
ZYGMUNT ROLAT
Zygmunt Rolat was born
in Częstochowa in 1930. During the Second World War he was sent to the Czestochowa
Ghetto, and after its destruction to a labor camp Hasag Pelcery (area of today's Wełnopol).
After the war Zygmunt Rolat emmigrated to the USA, graduated law school and started his own
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company, achieving economic success. He took up social and philantropic work. He is i.e. a
president of the American comittee for support of The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in
Warsaw, a board member of many institutions, like the Kościuszko Foundation or The Council
of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is also a president of the World
Association of Czestochowa Jews and Their Descendants
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