choosing-him.blogspot.com On Assumption Day, 1920, Our Lady saved Poland.
August, 1920. As the shadow of tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers appeared on the banks of the Vistula River outside Warsaw, Cardinal Ratti—the future Pope Pius XI—raised the monstrance and processed through the streets of the city.
The current pope, Benedict XV, had called on the Catholic world to pray for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the dire situation in which Poland now found herself. The people of Warsaw prayed desperately to their patroness, Our Lady of Czestochowa.
It seemed that only a miracle could save them now…
