April 2, the eighteenth anniversary of John Paul II’s death, was a cold, rainy day in Poland. Yet upwards of 50,000 Poles descended upon Warsaw in a march defending St. John Paul II against slander.
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KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) Eighteen years after the death of St. John Paul II April 2, 2005, his native Poland remembered him with vigils and marches.
The biggest one a crowd of an estimated tens of thousands of faithful marched through the streets of the capital, Warsaw. Similar marches were organized in cities and towns across the country.
The crowds marking Pope John Paul II s death anniversary were not as large as they had been in the first years after his death, and since his 2014