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- Date of production 20th century
- Dimensions height: 67.5 cm, width: 42.5 cm
- Museum Family Home of John Paul II Museum in Wadowice
- Subjects photographed, famous people
- Material wood, glass, paper
- Object copyright Museum Family House of Holy Father John Paul II
- Digital images copyright © all rights reserved, Museum Family House of Holy Father John Paul II
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, Małopolska's Virtual Museums project
- Tags John Paul II , portrait , Karol Wojtyła , family , 2D , photography , woman , © all rights reserved
A portrait of Emilia Wojtyła who died in 1929 when Karol was 9. The photograph had its place in a living room in a flat in Wadowice and afterwards, together with other objects, it was transported to Tyniecka Street in Kraków, where Karol and his father moved after Karol’s final school examinations. The portrait of his mother accompanied Karol until he entered a seminary.
more A portrait of Emilia Wojtyła who died in 1929 when Karol was 9. The photograph had its place in a living room in a flat in Wadowice and afterwards, together with other objects, it was transported to Tyniecka Street in Kraków, where Karol and his father moved after Karol’s final school examinations. The portrait of his mother accompanied Karol until he entered a seminary.
Photographs of loved ones were also special because they were traces of the family tragedies (the passing away of his mother, then brother and father). Death, which Karol Wojtyła had to face very early, turned his loved ones into portraits in sepia colours.
Among Wojtyła’s adolescent poems there is one dedicated to his mother:
“Over this, your white grave
The flowers of life in white —
So many years without you —
How many have passed out of sight?
Over this your white grave
Covered for years, there is a stir
In the air, something uplifting
And, like death, beyond comprehension.
Over this your white grave,
Oh Mother, can such loving cease,
For all his filial adoration
A prayer:
Give her eternal peace -
[Kraków, spring 1939]″[1]
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Poland License.
[1] K. Wojtyła, Poezje, dramaty, szkice, Krakow 2004, p. 529; translation provided by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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