Pretty town square and Monika's grandmother lives just two minutes away. There she goes to visit her
Friday, October 24, 2014
Friday Wadowice
Feed them breakfast and they'll pack their suitcases and follow you anywhere. This time to the birth place of St John Paul II
No photos inside the museum, alas. The museum is built around the room where he was born and lived the first years of his life, plus numerous artifacts and photos
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Wadowice was definitely a highlight. The museum (which sadly we could not document with photos) may have been the best museum I have ever been to. Walking through the events of St. John Paul II's life, seeing pictures, and imagining the town when he was alive was very inspiring. The Pope's cake (JPII"s favorite Polish dessert) we got to try afterwards added a special (and delicious) touch to our visit.
ReplyDeleteWadowice was probably my favorite town that we visited. The John Paul II museum was incredible and full of artifacts from his life. Now that he is a saint, I think many of them would be considered first-class relics.
ReplyDeleteI was really impressed by the organization of the museum and how it traced John Paul II's life in such an interesting, relatable way. By walking us through his progression from a child in Wadowice to his time in Krakow and Lublin to Rome, I felt like we got a great grasp of how he developed spiritually and as an intellectual leader.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the most interesting exhibit was the room with all of his vestments lined up. In a series of glass cases in the center of the room, you could walk around a display of his priest attire, then his bishop attire, then his cardinal attire, then finally his papal vestments. Seeing the real clothes lined up like that made it easy to picture the flesh-and-blood saint going through his life. There were many pictures I'd never seen before lining the walls, and some of the museum artifacts really made famous anecdotes about the pope hit home-- like the gun from the assassination attempt or the handwritten pages of his encyclicals.