secret is the National Day of Poland, the fifteenth of August. Sabrina is really the only ascension, that is a purely Christian religious affair. However, experts and connoisseurs of regional studies see in this date the reason for the summer holidays endless Polish: so that it also managed slowed and foot-dragging it pilgrim group in the six weeks in early July to mid August guaranteed up to Jasna Góra, pray for a week and recover could join and then came home.
thus actually ascension only mariae. but something was always happening that day. last year was madonna exactly on that day a concert in Warsaw, which provided for a frenzy. all the press people printed the scandalous and religiously objectionable singer in the appropriate pose on the front pages of their newspapers, and conservative-earth approach called public prayer circles to protest against the on-Rosenkraenzer disavowal of the Blessed Virgin. The Poles were relatively unaffected, concert in the church in the morning and evening.
this year was the highlight of the annual pilgrimage wave together with the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive turning point of the Polish-Bolshevik War, even the "Miracle on the Vistula" called. street the battle of Warsaw in the year nineteen hundred and twenty - - otherwise known only from the infinitely long a tram stop announcement made it This event suddenly on the third place of the most important anniversaries in the year 2010, after the Battle of Grunwald and the Katyn crime, but mind you before the 200th birthday of Frederic Chopin. and so the traditionellle, the plac Piłsudskiego of festivities, dressed up once again with stage and grand stand, transparent and altar, and on Sunday brought together government and dignitaries and illustrious company before the eyes of the numerous audience, mentioned by the president all in his speech, military leaders that battle of truly meaningful time of applicable ... because: what if ... asked the columnist and reporter, what if ... the Marszalek Pilsudski the train of the Bolsheviks to the West not the gates of Warsaw and the Vistula and this would have or exceeded and the revolutionary spirit but still in undestroyed, but bled to push postwar Germany, what if ... could ask the historians and gave eloquent scenarios to minutes of a Polish-Soviet Socialist Republic and USSR to the Atlantic Coast, what if ... was hardly imagine ... but it was turned out differently, and therefore were now owned by the Polish State and elite culture to flourish together and talk and fifteen times from a historical cannon salute. State holiday.
(there was, it was said that two dead. Older women heat intolerance and war memories together.)
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