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...prayers, pressing knees onto cold pavement or trampled grass, and remembering the man who represented to them nothing less than the savior of the national Polish soul.
"He was like Moses," said Przemyslaw Kalicki, who was standing in the square with his wife, Paulina, and their 13 year-old son Maciej, just minutes after the pope's death became known. "He led us through the Red Sea of Communism."
As Mr. Kalicki spoke, the 16th-century bell of the Wawel Cathedral across town, the biggest bell in Poland, began to ring, and the members of the Kalicki family stopped to listen. The bell, which has a deep and mystical timber, has been rung only on historic occasions.
The sense of history was indeed present. An era began here in 1978, when the city's son, Karol Wojtyla, was elected pope and Poland was a Communist dictatorship. And it ended with Poland democratic and secure, at least in part because of his moral...
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