The next day was filled with visits in Bielsko-Biała. The team visited with Bishop Tadeusz Rakoczy who informed us that a digitization project is underway for the diocese records and an index will be created. He said the index could be shared with The Polish Mission to help researchers pin point their ancestral parishes.
When the Bishop found out that Marcin’s daughter had made her First Communion in May, he presented him with a white rosary. It was in a small case with the insignia of Pope John Paul II and had been blessed by the pontiff. The cross was a small miniature of the cross of Pope John Paul II’s crosier.
