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Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Beatification of John Paul II and the 20th anniversary of World Youth Day, celebrated in Czestochowa in 1991, the Catholic weekly “Niedziela”, with its headquarters in Czestochowa, has begun gathering documents and testimonies from people who attended the event.
World Youth Day 1991 took place on 14 and 15 August 1991 in Czestochowa and took on strong symbolic importance: it is an important Marian Sanctuary, to which Pope Wojtyla was also strongly connected. Further, the venue was in Poland, the birthplace of the Pope as well as a country emerging from the orbit of the fallen Soviet regime. For the first time in the history of World Youth Days, the number of participants reached over a million and involved young people in Eastern Europe.
“One and a half million pilgrims in private homes, monasteries, schools, churches... it was a great thing not just for Poland but for all of Europe. We look forward especially the testimony of people from Eastern Europe,” said Anna Cichoblazińska, editor of Niedziela, to Fides.
All the memories and documents, also in electronic format, can be sent to Niedziela via e-mail: sdmczestochowa@niedziela.pl stating your name, address and your permission to publish the material. It will be catalogued and made available on the Niedziela website. Some will also be published in the weekly newspaper, without excluding the possible publication of a book. (MF/SL) (Agenzia Fides 25/02/2011)
