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associated with the royal court. It would also improve the position and respectability of the Polish state on the international, European scene. The Church also helped to strengthen the monarch's authority and brought to Poland much experience with regard to state administration. Thus, the Church organisation supported the state, and in return, bishops received important government titles (in the later era, they were members of the
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In adopting Christianity as the state religion, Mieszko sought to achieve several personal goals. He saw Poland's baptism as a way of strengthening his hold on power, as well as using it as a unifying force for the Polish people. It replaced several smaller cults with a single, central one, clearly
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The Moravian cultural influence played a significant role in the spread of Christianity onto the Polish lands and the subsequent adoption of that religion. In the opinion of Davies, the Christianization of Poland through the Czech–Polish alliance represented a conscious choice on the part of Polish
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permission to visit Poland that year. The desire of the Communist party to separate religion from the state made the festivities a culture clash between the state and the Church. While the Church was focusing on the religious, ecclesiastical aspects of the baptism, with slogans (in Latin) like
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The baptismal mission which began in the two major cities of Gniezno and Poznań with the baptism of Mieszko and his court spread throughout the country. During the 10th and 11th centuries various ecclesiastical organs were established in Poland. This included the building of churches and the
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rulers to ally themselves with the Czech state rather than the German one. In a similar fashion, some of the later political struggles involved the Polish Church refusing to subordinate itself to the German hierarchy and instead being directly subordinate to the
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witnessed large festivities on the 1,000th anniversary of those events, with the Church celebrating the 1,000 years of Christianity in Poland, while the Communist government celebrated the secular 1,000 years of the Polish State, culminated in twice denying
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The ceremony was preceded by a week of oral catechism and several days of fasting. The actual ceremony involved pouring water over the segregated groups of men and women, although it is possible that their heads were immersed instead, and anointed with the
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While the spread of Christianity in Poland took centuries to finish, the process was ultimately successful, as within several decades Poland joined the rank of established European states recognised by the papacy and the
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Although at first the Christian religion was "unpopular and alien", Mieszko's baptism was highly influential but needed to be enforced by the state, and ran into some popular opposition, including
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The preparations for the millennial celebrations begun with the Great Novena of 1957, which marked a nine years period of fast and prayer. In 1966, the
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was among the most widespread pagan gods worshiped in Poland. Christianity arrived around the late 9th century, most likely around the time when the
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on 22 July to coincide with the annual National Day of the Rebirth of Poland celebrations (set on the anniversary of the signing of the
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was framing the celebrations as a secular, political anniversary of the creation of the Polish state, with slogans (in Polish) like
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issued 128,475,000 commemorative stamps honoring the millennium anniversary of the adoption of Christianity in Poland.
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noted, both the Church and the Party had "rival, and mutually exclusive, interpretations of significance".
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are the most likely sites. However, other historians have suggested alternative locations, such as
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supported Christianization missions to neighboring lands, notably the mission of future Saint
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Before the adoption of Christianity in modern-day Poland, there were a number of different
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Out of various provinces of today's Poland, Christianity's spread was slowest in
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The exact place of Mieszko's baptism is disputed; Most historians argue that
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tribe encountered the Christian rite in dealings with their neighbors, the
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Materiały sesji naukowej odbytej 29 czerwca 1993 roku, Kraków, 1994
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as holding a crucifix in an allusion to the Baptism of Poland.
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Juliusz Bardach, Boguslaw Lesnodorski, and Michal Pietrzak,
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Major General Czesław Waryszak (1919–1979). Troops of the
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List of archbishops of Gniezno and primates of Poland
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First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party
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Christianization of Poland A.D. 966.
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History of Poland

Polonophile
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Flag
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