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Show Poles Grateful for Return cf Altar When our train reached Cracow there was a great welcoming ceremony. cere-mony. Then we were whisked to the Francuski hotel. When the altar was unpacked, the center sculpture, the Passing of Mary, was set up for the dedicatory mass. That was on Sunday, May 5, with spring in full bloom. The great church was packed to the doors. Sun streamed in on the Mary surrounded by white hydrangeas nri elowini? ranrilps. From high in ' the back the music of the mass ' flowed down across the worshippers to the priests before the altar. Then the mass was finished. Suddenly Sud-denly from the organ, reverently and with all the power of its great pipes, came "The Star Spangled Banner.' There was not a dry American eye in the church. As we came out into the sunlight to go to our hotel, a great cry went up from the people. "'Long live the Americans! " |