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  • St. John Paul II, patron of sweet tooths?: Saint remembered for his love of kremówka

    04/28/2014 12:49:14 PM PDT · by Welchie25 · 7 replies
    Catholic Review ^ | 4/28/14 | Maria Wiering
    There’s a story about St. John Paul II that describes a love from his childhood, when he was simply Karol Wojtyla. That love was cream cake. It’s well-known in his native Poland that the future pontiff and saint had an affection for the cream-filled pastry. Now Baltimoreans are getting their own taste, thanks to parishioners of Holy Rosary in Fells Point. The traditionally Polish parish sold the cream cake, made with a secret recipe, along with pirogues on April 26 and 27 to commemorate the April 27 canonizations of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII in Vatican City....