“My first word, uttered in silence and on my knees, has been a kiss on this soil (…) It’s like a kiss given in the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother”

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Pope St. John Paul II

Speech on the Welcome Ceremony on his Apostolic Travel to Poland

June 16th, 1983

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