Two weeks after the outbreak of World War II , on 13 September 1939, cardinal priest August Hlond decided to leave Poland. The Primate of Poland hoped that he would render a service to national affairs to a larger extent in exile than in the country. Staying in Italy, and then in France, he was bearing a testimony to the situation in Poland and supporting spiritually and financially the countrymen in exile. He also organized pastoral care for Polish refugees. Arrested by the German police in 1944, he did not agree on a proposal to collaborate with the Nazis. He returned to his homeland in 1945, after about six years of absence in the country. The aim of this article is to supplement the knowledge about the stay of priest cardinal August Hlond in France during World War II on the basis of the materials acquired from the archive of Polish Catholic Mission (PCM) in Paris. The materials retained in the PCM’s archive in Paris allow to supplement the previous knowledge about the life and activity of priest cardinal August Hlond during World War II . These materials are also the testimony to esteem he was held by the representatives of the Church in France.
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Vol. 46 No. 2 (2013)
Published: 2021-01-30
English
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