The taking of the Jasna Góra Vows by a group of almost
one million believers on 26 August 1956 within the pastures
of Jasna Góra was a ground-breaking event in the post-war
history of Poland. It seems that due to our modern historiography,
which suffers from excessive secularity, the said event is
mentioned only in journalism and sometimes in solely Catholic
historiography, with occasional, partial references in the so-called
secular public opinion. The very act of Jasna Góra Vows can
be considered as purely religious, which will be generally an
unfair opinion, or as a manifest of strength of the Polish Church
that had survived intensive Stalinization, or finally as the sign
of social support for the imprisoned Primate Stefan Wyszyński
and a proof that there was no social approval for such a state
of affairs.
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