Introduction of the relics of Blessed Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński to the Academic Church

On Saturday, January 27, 2024, during the 8:00 a.m. Mass, the relics of Blessed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the most important graduate in the history of the Catholic University of Lublin, will be brought to the Academic Church of the Catholic University of Lublin. Thus, the Primate of Poland will join St. John Paul II, the most distinguished professor of the Catholic University of Lublin, whose relics have been in the Church for more than a decade. The liturgy of the Mass will be presided over by the Metropolitan of Lublin and Grand Chancellor of the Catholic University of Lublin, Archbishop Stanislaw Budzik.

Cardinal Wyszynski studied canon law at the Catholic University of Lublin from 1924 to 1929. He completed his studies with a doctorate based on his thesis, "The Rights of the Family, the Church and the State to the School". As Bishop of Lublin (1946-48), he was a lecturer at the University and its Grand Chancellor. He contributed to the establishment of the Faculty of Christian Philosophy, and on his initiative the Polish Episcopate entrusted the Catholic University of Lublin with the task of compiling the Catholic Encyclopedia. Leading the Polish Church as Primate during the difficult years of communism, he remained a protector and benefactor of the Catholic University of Lublin; thanks to his care, the University survived the most difficult period of its history.