Pośród niesnasków Pan Bóg uderza... explained

Pośród niesnasków Pan Bóg uderza... - "Among the discord God rings [a bell]..." - is a poem written by Juliusz Słowacki in 1848, in which the poet prophesied the coming of a first Slavic pope.^{[1] [2]}

The poem was not popular with Słowacki's contemporaries and was mostly forgotten until a century later, when it gained huge popularity after Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyła was elected pope in 1978, as it has explicit predictions regarding a future Slavic pope (in Polish: "Słowiański Papież").^{[3] [4]} It was frequently cited by John Paul II.

External links

• Poem on Polish Wikisource

Notes and References

1. Book: Leon Dyczewski. Values in the Polish Cultural Tradition. CRVP. 2002. 978-1-56518-142-7. 100–.
2. Book: Peter Jan Margry. Grassroots Memorials: The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death. Cristina Sánchez-Carretero. 1 August 2011. Berghahn Books. 978-0-85745-190-3. 190–.
3. Book: Grzegorz Polak. Nieznane oblicze pontyfikatu. Wydawnictwo M. 2011. 978-83-7595-320-6. 11–.
4. Book: Jan Kochańczyk. Jan Paweł II i krach komunizmu: polski mesjanizm i losy świata. 6 December 2012. e-bookowo.pl. 978-83-63080-85-3. 126–.