'I wrote a report saying that Poland would be free within a matter of a year,' Biden said, also mentioning Poland's former communist government. The president gifted the priest one of his challenge coins.īiden was later seen with an Ash Wednesday smudge on his forehead during his afternoon meetings with the Bucharest Nine leaders in Warsaw, Poland 'We prayed for peace, the conversion of Russia and the light of the Holy Spirit for Mr. 'Everything took place in great secrecy, but now I can speak: in an improvised chapel, next to the President's apartment,' he wrote in Polish. Joe Biden.'īiden was seen with a smudge on his forehead during his meeting later Wednesday with leaders of the Bucharest Nine, the final item on his schedule before he headed back to the United States after a three-day European trip.
'I had the honor today of placing ashes on the forehead of the US President Mr. Even the most powerful in this world take ashes - if they belong to the Catholic tradition,' Dawidowski wrote on his post.
President Joe Biden marked Ash Wednesday by participating in a private mass at his Warsaw hotel with a Polish priest who spent six months in prison for being involved in the anti-communist underground.įather Wiesław Dawidowski gave Biden mass at the downtown Marriott hotel where the president was staying, sharing photos on his Facebook page that showed a makeshift altar adorned with a wooden cross and two candles.
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