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[Music] [Music] [Polish translation of the film's title] (speaking in foreign language)

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we begin at the same time with the drawings of the artist's brush painting a fragment of the iconostasis for the Church of the Holy Cross in Wrocław. It is clear that one film will not cover the whole issue related to the Church of a nearly thousand-year tradition.

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However, the approaching millennium of the Rus' baptism, which falls on the year 1988, the need for a film attempt to show the outline of the problem of this ritual, to explain the parts of the increased misunderstandings and ambiguity,

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and above all, to present the spring church with the whole beauty of its Slavic ritual, preserved in the centuries-old content of history by the clergy and the faithful. For reasonable reasons, we will only deal with the ritual in the area of Poland, signaling historical and geographical parallels.

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[Music] [Music] (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language)

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[Music] [singing in foreign language] [singing] [music]

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(singing in foreign language) (music playing) [singing] [ Music ]

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[singing] (singing in foreign language) [singing] (singing in foreign language)

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[Singing] [Singing] [Music] (dramatic music)

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[ Foreign Language ] [Portuguese] [Polish] [ Foreign Language Spoken ]

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[chanting] [chatter] [chanting] [chanting]

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[singing] [singing] [singing] [Running water]

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[chatter] [chatter] (chattering) [chatter]

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[chatter] (men chattering) (chattering) [chatter]

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(choral music) [Music] [Choir singing] [Music]

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[Music] [Music] [music] (speaking in foreign language)

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is over 40. Their work is a typical mission. Because each of the priests has at least two facilities that he serves. And there are those who have three, and even four. And in addition, these facilities are more than 50 kilometers apart. (speaking in foreign language) [Polish] [Polish]

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) which operates through its general vicarages. And territorially, the whole of Poland is divided into two vicariates.

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The southern one with the center in Legnica, and the northern one with the center in Warsaw. In turn, these vicariates are divided into decanates. Large, extensive decanates, at least territorially.

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In the southern vicarage, there are two deans, Przemysl and Wrocław, and in the northern one, there are also two, Koszaliński and Olsztyński. In 1988, the Russian prince Vladimir received a baptism in the Slavic and Greek order from the Bulgarians. The earlier contacts of the Rus with Rome, such as the activities of the disciples of St. Cyril and Methodius,

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the baptism of St. Olga in 957, or the mission of St. Adalbert, decided that the year 1054, accepted as the date of the division of Christianity, did not separate the Rus from Rome. At this time, Prince Isafslav is recognized as a patron of the capital of the Apostles,

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later King Daniel takes the royal crown from Rome, and the delegates of the council actively participate in the councils. Only the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders initiated the influx of the Greek clergy to Rus,

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resulting in the separation of the Russian Church from Rome. The conquest of the Rus of the Halic-Vladimir dynasty for the Polish crown by Kazimierz the Great, as well as the inclusion of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, meant the independence of almost all the Russian lands from the Republic.

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The Moscow power was growing more and more from the East. In this situation, the faithful of the church, called Orthodox, were facing great problems. On the one hand, they were threatened with the Russian-ification,

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on the other, the sinking into the Polish society. The transition of the magnateria to the Latin order began, and at the same time, they were reviving old thoughts about the connection with Rome, expressed by the baptism of Vladimir or the Florentine Union.

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These facts laid the foundations for rebuilding relations with the Pope. The Bishops Hippocrates Potier and Cyril Terlecki were included in the Union, on the Synod in Brzezno in June, completing the act of December 23, 1595 in the Vatican.

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On the power of the document connecting the Orthodox Church of the Republic of Poland with Rome, the Eastern Ordinance recognized Catholic dogmas and the primacy of the Pope, maintaining a separate liturgy, hierarchy, calendar, and the possibility of marriage in the priesthood. From the turn of 1595, the so-called Unicum Regime began its own history

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in the vast areas of Rus', from Kiev to Vitebsk and Połock. The tragedy of the regime, as well as the Ukrainian nation, was the lack of understanding of the idea of the Union of Brescia and the existence of the disunited Church,

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which does not recognize the connection with Rome in political terms. This situation means constant conflicts between the two orientations, which lead to death and destruction. Then St. Joseph Kuncewicz dies in a tormented manner.

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The Republic has never really valued the Union, which the Moscow rulers have used since the first partition, by patagonizing the occupied lands of the faithful and forcing them to accept Russian Orthodoxy. This year, in June, when Archbishop Miroslav Marusyn,

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the secretary of the Holy Congregation for the Eastern Church from Rome, gave a very nice introduction to Archbishop Mitrat and all the faithful. He said that Archbishop Mitrat Mykolai Deńko is a living witness, one of the oldest,

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because he is already 80 years old, who has seen a lot, lived through a lot, and can teach many things. After finishing seminary, Archbishop Mitrat left for his studies in Rome. After obtaining his doctorate, he returned

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and he was a spiritual father at the Greek Catholic seminary in Przemyśl. Because many facts of the war, pre-war period are being forgotten, could Archbishop Mitrat present some of his reflections for us? (dramatic music)

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(dramatic music) [meow] (ominous music) (dramatic music)

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(dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music)

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(dramatic music) (dramatic music) (wind howling) (dramatic music)

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(dramatic music) (wind howling) (airplane engine roaring) (wind blowing)

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[Music] [Polish] [Polish translation] [Polish]

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[Polish] - What was the data from schematism? - 120. 120. And then the number of solitary workers, so-called. - Solitary workers. - 76.

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It was a very large number. I also see the schematism of the archives. The Lemkowska administration, in the father Mitrat's house. It's interesting. There were 9 deans, 66 provosts,

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[Polish translation of the text] After October, I was released from prison, and priest Mieczysław Grynek was also in prison. We were released from prison, and we had to... There are different relations now.

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Mółka came, so we hoped that we could go in our order. [Polish] It was difficult to find out where people were. After the displacement in 1947,

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they were scattered all over Poland. But more or less, in this place, where there were reports, people were trying to find our convent.

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we gave the order to the local authorities to investigate the case. The local authorities, of course, after the efforts of the priest, the premier, Wyszyński, and so on, gave us some places.

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About 20 places were granted permission to worship in our order. (gentle music) (speaking in foreign language) In the Russian partition, all the Unionist dieceses were liquidated by violence, aggression and terror.

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The Greek Catholics in the Austrian partition had certain freedoms, especially for Franciszek Józef, who took care of them and called them, to distinguish them from the Latinx, "Greek Catholics". This name of the Ukrainian order is still valid in Poland. (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) the Polish Church of Greece counted over 3.5 million faithful. [MUSIC]

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[Church bells ringing] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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[choir singing] [Music] [Music] (choir singing)

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[Choral singing] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Church singing]

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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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[Music] [Music] [singing] [Choral singing]

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[ Music ] [Music] [Music] [choral singing]

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[Music] [music] [MUSIC] [Music]

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[Music] [Prayer] [ Music ] [singing in foreign language]

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[MUSIC] (singing in foreign language) [singing in Polish] [singing in foreign language]

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(singing in foreign language) [ Singing ] (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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[ Music ] [singing in Serbian] [Music] [MUSIC PLAYING]

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(speaking in foreign language) [music] (gentle music) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) [Polish translation] (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) [Polish translation]

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[Polish translation] [Polish translation] [Polish translation] [Polish]

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) [Polish translation]

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) [Polish translation]

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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[Polish] (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) [Polish translation]

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) [Polish] [Polish]

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(speaking in foreign language) [Polish language] (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (somber music)

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[Music] (speaking in foreign language) of the Holy Mary in Warsaw. There is no particularly large Greco-Catholic community here.

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Mass resettlement in 1947 was decided on the location of Ukrainian population in Poland. In addition to those who were in the Soviet Union, about 600,000 Ukrainians were resettled to the West and North.

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Until 1956, the religion of all the settlers did not have the right to exist. At present, the Greek Catholic Church in Poland has about 400,000 faithful, scattered throughout the country, mainly in the northern and western provinces, as well as in Przemysl and Nowocondeck. (speaking in foreign language)

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(gentle music) [Music] [Music] [Music]

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[Music] [Singing in Polish] (singing in foreign language) [singing in Polish]

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(singing in foreign language) [ Singing ] [ Singing ] [ Singing ]

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(singing in foreign language) [Music] [MUSIC PLAYING] [Music]

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[Polish translation] (dramatic music) (dramatic music) used exclusively by Greek-Catholic priests.

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) They are the ones who are rich.

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We are poor people. We have only one house in Nazareth. We live on the labor of our hands. I work and sew for people. And my guardian from the village produces the yarn. The worst outcome is that our people are broken and desperate.

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If there was a self-governing state, we would be better off. (speaking in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (singing in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) [speaking in foreign language] [ Foreign Language ] (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (splatting)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (gentle music)

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[ Music ] [singing in Russian] [Singing in Russian] (singing in foreign language)

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[Music] [ Singing ] [singing] [ Singing ]

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[Singing] (speaking in foreign language) [Polish translation] [Polish translation]

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) [Polish translation] [Polish translation]

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(speaking in foreign language) [Polish translation] [Polish] (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) [Polish language] (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) [Polish translation]

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[ Foreign Language ] [ Foreign Language ] [Church singing] [Polish]

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[ Foreign Language ] (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (singing in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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[Polish] [chanting] (crowd gasping) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) and faithful to our custom.

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The interest in the liturgy and the history of this custom is growing, both among the youth and the elderly. Life is developing in informal environments. The number of vocations is increasing systematically.

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All this is a source of optimism, that this custom will continue to develop. and the coming anniversary of the Russian-Ukrainian crusade in 1988, we hope will become an impulse to deepen the religious life of our society.

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