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Stasia Wilczak was born and raised in Poland and moved to the USA in 1998, when she was 41 years old. She is mother of 3 and grandmother to 9. She has works as a church environment coordinator at her local parish and organizes spiritual events and pilgrimages in her spare time.

Timestamps:

0:00-Introduction

2:28- Where Poland is Located in Europe

4:27- 10th Century, Duke Mieszko’s Conversion to Catholicism

12:34- 11th Century, Bishop Adalbert

19:00-12th-13th Centuries, Teutonic Knights

23:37- 14th-15th Century, Golden Age, Casimir III the Great, Jews Welcomed

32:11- 16th Century, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Protestant Reformation

37:06- 17th Century, Counter Reformation, Swedish Invasion, Black Madonna, Siege of Vienna

51:40-18th Century- 18th Century, First Modern Constitution of Poland, Poland Gets Occupied and Partitioned

55:11- 19th Century, Uprisings Against Occupation

56:54- 20th Century, World War I, Poland Regains Independence

59:42- “Rota," or “The Oath” Patriotic Song

1:04:00-Outro

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