I love Poland. I spent a few days there last fall and the Poles are fantastic people. I was there on All Saints Day and the entire country shutdown. Not a thing was open except public transit. The people travel from all over to visit the graves of their ancestors. I’m not Catholic but I am familiar with holiday but here in America you don’t see it celebrated like that. As an American tourist I was not prepared for the total shutdown. So we took a trolley out to the main cemetery in Warsaw. There must have been 200 thousand people there. They lit candles on the graves at sunset. It was beautiful beyond description. The poles are way more religious than western Europeans and even more important the young people and others who may not be personally religious still show great respect for their culture and traditions. The average pole also has a great respect and knowledge of Polish history. Something you don’t see in the west. Poland will survive and thrive long after western Europe has been assimilated by the caliphate Borg.
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Thanks for sharing. My grandfather and great-grandfather were born in Poland.
I am Catholic (not Polish, though), and that sounds amazing to me.