Pawel Zborowski prayed on a sunny morning for his new church in Greeley a month ago. He wondered what would be good, great, even, for St. Mary Roman Catholic Church. The answer from his prayers didn’t surprise him.
Pope John Paul II. Of course. The man meant so much to Colorado. The man meant so much to 34-year-old Zborowski.
Zborowski, after all, is from Poland, and Pope John Paul II was not only responsible for inspiring thousands of young men to become priests, he inspired the country itself to shed the shackles of communism.
Thanks to Zborowski’s effort, the church received a first-class relic, the highest of three: A drop of the pope’s blood.
A drop of blood may sound a little weird, even creepy. The blood came from some medical tests performed on John Paul before he died. But it is symbolic in a church that treasures symbols, Zborowski said.
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