POLAND: RESIDENTS OF WADOWICE CARRY SOIL FROM PLACES FAMILIAR TO POPE JOHN PAUL II TO PLACE IN HIS GRAVE

Record ID: 344889

  • Title: POLAND: RESIDENTS OF WADOWICE CARRY SOIL FROM PLACES FAMILIAR TO POPE JOHN PAUL II TO PLACE IN HIS GRAVE
  • Date: 7th April 2005
  • Summary: (BN16) WADOWICE, POLAND (APRIL 5, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. GV WADOWICE SKYLINE WITH BAZYILKA; LV PAN WADOWICE TOWN HALL; SCU /CU CASKET WITH WADOWICE SOIL 1.06 2. SOUNDBITE (Polish) EWA FILIPIAK, MAYOR OF WADOWICE, SAYING: "It is an old Polish tradition that when a family member dies abroad you take the soil from his birthplace to his grave. Knowing that the Pope will be buried in Rome, we are taking this soil from his hometown." 1.27 3. SCU FILIPIAK HOLDING THE BOX 1.29 4. SLV PEOPLE GATHERED OUTSIDE HOUSE WHERE POPE JOHN PAUL II LIVED; MV FLAGS 1.42 5. SLV WADOWICE TOWN SQUARE; SLV THEATRE WHERE POPE JOHN PAUL II ACTED 2.03 6. LAS/SLV SAINT JOSEPH SANCTUARY WHICH RECEIVED A GOLDEN RING SYMBOLIZING SAINT JOZEF FROM POPE JOHN PAUL II; SLV EXTERIOR OF CHAPEL 2.53 7. SCU BELLS RINGING; MV STEFAN MAJ RINGING CHAPEL BELL; INTERIOR CHAPEL 3.34 8. SOUNDBITE (Polish) STEFAN MAJ, RESIDENT OF WADOWICE, SAYING: "My mother told me he (Pope John Paul II) came to this chapel before the war with his father, as a tourist. I saw him and even though I didn't speak to him, I was always close even when he was Bishop." 3.53 9. SLV ROAD LEADING TO CHAPEL 4.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd April 2005 13:00
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  • Location: WADOWICE, POLAND
  • Country: Poland
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  • Story Text: Residents of Wadowice carry soil from places
    familiar to Pope John Paul II to place in his grave.

    Soil from places familiar to Pope John Paul II
    travelled from his home town Wadowice, 50 km (31 miles)
    west of Krakow, to Rome on Tuesday (April 5, 2005) to be
    laid in his grave.

    Residents of the small town left on buses with a
    pilgrimage to bid farewell to their countryman.

    "It is an old Polish tradition that when a family
    member dies abroad you take the soil from his birthplace to
    his grave. Knowing that the Pope will be buried in Rome, we
    are taking this soil from his hometown" said the mayor of
    Wadowice, Ewa Filipiak.

    Thousands of Poles boarded buses, trains and planes for
    Rome on Tuesday (April 5) for the funeral of their
    compatriot Pope John Paul, while many more flocked to the
    Polish capital for a huge memorial mass.

    Hundreds of thousands of Poles are expected to make it
    to Friday's (April 8) funeral, which may draw two million
    people from around the globe.

    Poles are observing six days of national mourning for
    the Pope, who guided them spiritually for a quarter of a
    century.

    Millions more will attend masses throughout the country
    on Friday (April 8), when all state institutions and major
    businesses will shut down.


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