The city of Warsaw was celebrating the 30th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s first visit to Poland as pontiff at a park near the congress. The nine-metre white granite cross stands on the site where John Paul delivered a mass in 1979 in then-Communist Poland. An outdoor Mass was held and the cross was blessed. Bishop Tadeusz Rakoczy of Bielsko-Biała sent Marcin a special invitation to join the delegation while in Warsaw.
