The Saint’s relics will visit Ireland on 1 - 2 October 2016 to mark the 75th anniversary of his martyrdom in Auschwitz in 1941.
“I can only hope you understand how much I love Ireland – love all of you – and thank you for this privilege of opening the novena at a shrine so dear to my heart.”
There are those who wish to incite and foment an atmosphere of war deliberately for the purpose of selling arms Pontiff warns.
"Although Jews were the main victims of Nazi barbarism, the people of Poland were not spared."
