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This medal has been cast in 1988 to commemorate the Polish bishop and cardinal August Hlond
av. The portrait of August Hlond
rv. The project of church in Katowice (Silesia region
of Poland)
diameter
- 70 mm (about 2 ¾ “)
weight – 140 gr, (about 4.95oz)
metal – bronze silvered metal
August
Hlond (July 5, 1881 – October 22, 1948) was a Polish cardinal, who was
Archbishop of Poznań and Gniezno in 1926 and primate (highest ranking church
official) in Poland, Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw in 1946. He was the only
member of the Sacred College of Cardinals to be arrested and taken into custody
by the Gestapo during World War Two, and for the final years of his life was a
critic of the Soviet backed Communist regime in Poland.
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