La ricostruzione storiografica dei primi contatti tra la Comunità Ecumenica di Taizé e la Chiesa polacca
First contacts between the Ecumenical Community of Taizé and the Church in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to outline the first contacts between the Ecumenical Community of Taizé and Poland. The available materials show that the first Poles who visited Taizé in 1960 were Father Jerzy Klinger and Aniela Urbanowicz from Warsaw. Through the press, the news about this community gradually reached various environments, such as the Catholic intelligentsia or precursors of ecumenism associated with the center in Laski near Warsaw. The event which was the Second Vatican Council reviewed the first contacts thanks to two factors. On the one hand, a group of people (fathers of the Council, secular observers and journalists) made personal contact with the brothers from Taizé staying in Rome. On the other hand, the Council opened for Catholics the possibility of participating in the ecumenical movement and contacts with the Community of Taizé became a chance for Polish people to put this new opportunity into practice.

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