Posted on 08/15/2021 2:50:18 AM PDT by Cronos
In 1920, in the face of Soviet aggression, Catholic Poland stood alone
. By the spring of 1920 Poland was under attack from the Soviet Red Army.
At the national Marian shrine of Czestochowa candles were lit and desperate prayers intoned beside the icon of the Black Madonna. The intercession of Our Lady of Czestochowa was never more needed. .... Strange rumors began to circulate in Warsaw. Some claimed that in the sky above the Polish lines had appeared the Black Madonna of Czestochowa.
While the Poles fought with a new resolve, the Soviets, curiously, lost theirs. One Russian rifleman was later to comment that by the afternoon of Aug. 15, “The moment had come when not only individual units but the whole mass of the army suddenly lost faith in the possibility of success against the enemy. It was as though a cord that we had been stretching since the [invasion] had suddenly snapped.”
...for almost two days, Polish forces raced onward, brushing aside what few Bolshevik units they encountered. Piłsudski could not believe his eyes.
Meanwhile, Poles returned to the shrine of Czestochowa. Again, candles were lit, once more to cast a faint glow upon the enigmatic face of the Black Madonna.
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Many years later, Pope John Paul II wrote:
You know that I was born in 1920, in May, when the Bolsheviks marched toward Warsaw. And that’s why since my birth I have carried the great debt toward those who died fighting against the aggressor and who won, giving their lives for their country …
Then ... communism appeared as very strong and dangerous. It seemed that the communists would conquer Poland and would march to Western Europe, that they would conquer the world.
But it did not happen.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
On September 11 1683 Poland saved Europe from an Islamic Invasion at Vienna. That is why Osama Bin Laden chose that date for revenge.
GOD BLESS THE POLES!!
It was truly a miracle.
There was also a group of American pilots who flew bi-planes that helped turn the tide.
The power of prayer.
August 15 is also the day in 1945 when the the emperor of Japan ordered a cease fire by Japanese forces thus ending WW!!
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