Church beatifies Pole slain by communists in 1984
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Thousands of Poles are expected to fill a vast square in Warsaw on Sunday for the beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko, a charismatic priest tortured and killed in 1984 by communist Poland's secret police for supporting Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement.
The head of the Vatican's saint-making office, Archbishop Angelo Amato, will preside over a beatification Mass at Pilsudski Square that will also be celebrated by 120 bishops and 1,300 priests. The Mass will then be followed by an hours-long procession of his remains referred to as relics to a new church in the southern Warsaw suburb of Wilanow. (AP)
