Old acquaintances, friends from the time of anticommunist opposition, people with remarkable history and beautiful life stories met in the Parliament to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of them - Priest Czeslaw Sadlowski.
In the 1970s and 1980s, as parish priest in Zbrocza Duża, he showed great strength and charisma. He organized opposition life: illegal assemblies, masses, screened films, ran a secret printing shop. The priest was open to helping farmers and became a symbol for the Polish countryside. Despite repressions by the communist services, attempts to set fire to the rectory, total blockades of Zbrocza by the ZOMO, he was determined to fight for freedom and bring help to those who needed it.
The gathered people thanked the priest for his years of hard work and emphasized his great merits in the struggle for the dignity of the countryside and independence of Poland. Marek Kuchciński, whose paths in the opposition were intertwined with Fr Sadłowski's, recalled their common fight for the freedom of speech. - In 1982, Father Sadłowski convinced me, a man who never thought that he would be a modest civil servant today, that instead of reading books and pondering the sense of human life, one should act," the Speaker recalled. He emphasized that it should be remembered that Fr. Sadlowski, together with Fr. Bartminski, inspired pastoral actions for farmers.
- We have walked a difficult path," said the prelate. - But on this way we were supported by God. He showed us what to do, gave us strength and courage. It is important for us to remember in difficult situations that there is someone who supports us - he said.
Rev. Czeslaw Sadlowski. It is worth remembering those who fought for the values
Photo by Marta Olejnik
