Marysia Thiele, a Kosciuszko Heritage committee member, has paid a visit to the grave of Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki in Poland.
“Primary School No. 53 in Głuszyna, bearing the name of Paul Edmund Strzelecki, invited me to visit the crypt of the meritorious dead of Wielkopolska on the Hill of St. Adalbert in Poznan,” recounts Marysia. “At 10 in the morning, canon priest Marek Kaiser brought a delegation from the school to the basement; the group consisted of three students from the seventh grade, a teacher and headmistress Ann Liebert, PTTK representatives Mr and Mrs Rose, Wojciech Owsianowskich and me.
“Some flowers were placed by the sarcophagus of Paul Edmund Strzelecki by the school delegation, and I put a wreath of red and white roses from the Polish community of South Australia at the foot of the sarcophagus. Along with the canon priest, we said a prayer for the soul of Paul Edmund Strzelecki, and finally wrote in the crypt’s guestbook.”
For more information, please see the article in Puls Polonii.
