At the end of the celebration in Lagiewniki, John Paul II said that lots of his own memories were linked with that place: “First of all, I was here during the occupation by the National Socialists, when I worked at the nearby Solvay factory. Today, I can still remember the road from Borek Falecki to Debniki, which I had to walk everyday with my clogs, when I went to the factory to do my shifts “. In 2004, went on the archbishop of Vienna, John Paul II made an appeal to the whole Church to be “witness of mercy”: "this is the purpose of the First World Congress of Mercy. The world needs mercy". "The message of John Paul II and Faustyna Kowalska is not an abstract principle, but has a name and a face: Jesus", underlined the cardinal: "In this historical period, in which there are lots of attempts to falsify the image of Jesus, the new book by Pope Benedict XVI helps us to discover the real ‘Jesus from Nazareth'”. “Looking at Christ”: according to Schonborn, that "was the heritage left by John Paul II, and this was also the motto of the visit by Benedict XVI to Austria. And it is also the core of the World Congress of Mercy in the Easter week of 2008". "Non-Catholic personalities" will also take part in it.
