Włocławek citizen from his own choice. Primate of Poland cardinal Stefan Wyszyński

Abstract

For Stefan Wyszyński (1901–1981), the later cardinal of Poland, Włocławek and its seminary was a chosen place of study. He was born far from Włocławek, on the Podlasie. Probably there were a few factors influenced his choice; apart from some unexpected circumstamces as World War or family removal, it was a great opinion of seminary in Włocławek as a place of high intellectual and spiritual level. It was what the graduates and priests who were studying there but coming from the Wyszyńskis’ early places of living said. Włocławek, which Wyszyński got involved with on 1917, was slowly but stormy transforming from an episcopal city of centuries-old tradition to a industrial and proletariat city. It was also a city of a differentiated religious and national structure. For Stefan Wyszyński, these facts, by comparision with the ecclesiastical environment of high cultural and intellectual level concentrated around one of the oldest Polish seminaries, became not only a place where he was formed as a priest, but it was also giving him a wide opportunity of social or political phenomema’s reading in the light of Church’s teachings. Intellectual abilities of the young priest, noticed by his superiors, were them developing in other places but there was still a lively to the end of Primate od Poland’s life awareness this is the place where the foundations for his further pastoral, publishing, editorial and social work. Intellectual abilities of the young priest noticed by his superiors were then developing in other places, but there was still a lively, to the end of Primate of Poland’s life, awareness that this is a place where the foundations of his following pastoral, publishing, editorial and social work.