We Love You Alyssa, Union Pool

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Father Jerzy Popieluszko Memorial Monument, McCarren Park

Father Jerzy Popieluszko Memorial, Father Jerzy Popieluszko Square, McCarren Park, Brooklyn


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• Location: Father Jerzy Popieluszko Square, Bedford and Nassau Avenues
• Sculptor: Stanislaw Lutostanski
• Architect: M. Paul Friedberg & Partners
• Description: Bust emerging from a rough-hewn block, so it appears to be enshrouded up to the shoulders in a map of Poland, two plaques in pavement at front
• Cast: 1990
• Dedicated: October 21, 1990
• Donor: Polish American Congress, Downstate N.Y. Division
• Inscription: Plaque 1:
  CONQUER EVIL WITH GOOD / JOHN PAUL II / IN MEMORY OF / FATHER JERZY POPIELUSZKO / 1947 - 1984 / PRIEST, / DEFENDER OF HIS COUNTRY / AND NATIONAL SOLIDARITY, / MARTYR FOR THE TRUTH, / BY THE HANDS OF COMMUNISTS / IN POLAND ON 19 OCTOBER 1984. / POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESS / DOWNSTATE N.Y. DIVISION /