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A historical revelation? Papal bull discovered in a former cemetery dated to the 14th century

Dating from the 14th century, the papal bull was found in 2021 in a former cemetery by the PARSĘTA Exploration & Search Group. Marcin Bielecki/PAP

Discovered in a former graveyard in 2021, researchers have dated a papal bull found in northern Poland to the reign of Pope Boniface IX. Now, historians are speculating that it could be the only surviving link to a Benedictine monastery.

Polish WWII memorial desecrated in Gardelegen, Germany

Twenty-four graves in the Gardelegen cemetery, northern Germany, where Poles burned alive by the Germans in 1945 are buried, have been desecrated, the Gardelegen Memorial has reported.

Forgotten January Uprising hero set to be officially recognized after his grave is found in London

One of the most prominent Polish immigrants active in London in the early 1900s, Klemens Wierzbicki’s grave was rediscovered by chance after both his UK-based great-granddaughter Veronica Ward and a group of London-based Polish researcher-historians were put in touch by a worker at St Patrick's Cemetary in Leyton.

Poznań unveils pocket-sized ‘forest of remembrance’ where visitors can ‘remember the dead among the rustle of trees’

Framed by a small, knee-high fence, the 180 sq/m space has been designed for biodegradable urns and will ultimately be a place for friends and families to scatter the ashes of their loved ones.

Elderly couple reunited after losing each other in cemetery for four hours

The two 80-year-olds who have been happily married for 55 years had been visiting the graves of their loved ones in Łódź when they became separated.

Remains of three presidents-in-exile to be brought to Poland

The remains of three Polish presidents-in-exile will be brought to Poland from a military cemetery in the UK in November.

Graves damaged by sinkhole in cemetery

Around 50 graves were damaged when a sinkhole opened up beneath them in a cemetery in the southern Polish town of Trzebinia on Tuesday morning.

Another Polish WWII memorial site destroyed in Belarus

A memorial site with tombs of Polish World War Two Home Army (AK) soldiers in north-western Belarus is being levelled to the ground by the Minsk regime services, Lukasz Jasina, a Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman, said on Thursday.

Medieval ‘vampire teeth’ had less decay than today’s choppers, say dental experts

Dentists from Katowice who examined the teeth of six people ‘rejected by society’ and accused of being ‘vampires’, found their gnashers were in ‘good condition’.

Warsaw demands explanation after Belarus destroys Polish WWII memorial

The memorial, in the western village of Mikuliszki, consisted of the remains of the wartime headquarters of a Polish Home Army unit whose members died in combat in the area in 1944.

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Posting on Twitter, the Ministry of Infrastructure said: “The first signs are already leading to Królewiec. We have just started replacing the boards so that they have Polish name Królewiec, not Kaliningrad.

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