pilgrim

08/15/12 08:24

Thirty years ago today (the Feast of the Assumption) I wandered about the monastery of Jasna Gora in Czestochowa. The day before I had arrived in the city with thousands of other pilgrims from all over Poland. The majority of us had walked from Warsaw, covering 150 miles over nine days, and we had been greeted on arrival like a liberating army. Poland was under martial law in 1982, and the annual religious rite took on a strong political significance.

High atop the fortress walls I came upon a young man who told me that things would have to change now; the government could not last when almost the entire population was against it. I thought he was being overly optimistic; the government had already survived nearly 40 years of unpopular rule, who was to say it couldn't double that?

But the young man was right. By 1990 the government was gone.

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