Eight hundred poles embark on a train special Friday night for 26 hours across Europe, destination of Rome and the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II. They joined tens of thousands of Poles who are mass in Rome for the beatification on Sunday, a major celebration for a nation of joy to see the Polish Pontiff closer to holiness.
Saturday afternoon, the train of Pilgrim was raining former Italian vineyards and church steeples, after crossing through the Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria.
The day began with morning mass celebrated by priests and monks in the dining car of the train. They gathered around an altar of fortune on a table to eat chamarrée with a white cloth and a crucifix four inches (10 centimeters). The faithful followed as well as in the aisles, some hands or knees standing in the prayer, and probing priests their descent went packaged, narrow to give them Communion.
Mieczyslawa Rzepecka, 55, who was the pilgrimage with her husband and son, said she planned to eat dried biscuits and water for the trip, a partial fast meant as a gesture of piety. The long train journey did not sentence him - she said that she knows that most of the Poles make travel by bus, which is longer and narrower.
"If you love John Paul, this is not hard," she said.
In addition, however, deepened Saturday luncheon of balls of pork with dill sauce, boiled potatoes and beet. In a compartment, which, prior to travel, were foreign passengers were share the cake and recalling their memories of John Paul.
Beata Klodkiewicz, a teacher of religion of 47 years, speaks with passion in support of Jean-Paul teachings on the sanctity of marriage and its opposition to fertilization in vitro.
"I had six errors, but I would never consider in vitro," she said, sitting next to her husband. "During in vitro many babies can be destroyed."
The train "Popie?uszko" pilgrims travelling bears the name of Jerzy Popie?uszko, a Polish priest recently beatified for was assassinated by the Communist regime in 1984 - the system that John Paul is credited for helping to overthrow.
The train is due to shoot in Rome, a few hours before the beatification on Sunday.
For those who arrived earlier, a night prayer vigil begins Saturday night at the Circus Maximus of the Rome, featuring the testimony of the nun French whose inexplicable treatment of Parkinson's disease has been the necessary miracle to beatify John Paul.
Travel for poles on board the Popie?uszko began with a mass in the ancient Church of the Popie?uszko Warsaw on Friday night. The pilgrims then made their way together at a nearby station, pulling luggage or carrying of backpacks and water bottles.
Some on Board said they were going to Rome to make with John Paul for prayers, that he already had a response, or for Pope Benedict XVI for the early beatification of their beloved compatriot. Others said that they were looking for cures for health problems, while some said they wanted to resume the powerful sense of community that over the life of Jean-Paul youth meetings, that he led.
Sylwia Kurowska, 31, said that it expected a similar to the funeral of Jean-Paul spiritual experience a packed St. Peter Square in 2005, when the wind turned the pages of a book of Gospels on his coffin.
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