St. Florian church information: Żywiec-Zabłocie, Poland

On the left column of this blog, I have a church pictured, called St. Florian church. It is where a lot of my Sanetra family records are kept. I found this site with pictures, and a nice video clip about the church's history. It is of course, in Polish. But it is visual enough that even if you don't know Polish, you can know what the church looks like. This site is maintained and copyrighted by the Catholic Church.
St. Florian Church video clip
Unfortunately I can't get a direct link to the video to work.  So follow these three steps:
1) Click on the above "St. Florian Church video clip."
2) Go to the brown boxes with words, click on "historia parafii".
3) Scroll down to and select "zabacz film o parafii"

A friend and relative watched this clip. She told me about what was said and shown. Here are some things she told me about, that I thought you might find interesting in this video clip:

* Prior to 1895, people in Zablocie were part of The Blessed Virgin Mary parish in Zywiec. In 1895 citizens of Zablocie created the St. Florian organization, dedicated to building their own church.

* The building of this church started in 1935. 

* During the war, a national resistance group called Armia Krajowa (AK) hid weapons and printed resistance literature at the church. The priest in charge had to hide from the Nazi's because of this.

* Pope John Paul II often visited this church, sometimes annually.

I hope you'll check out this great visual site, the Catholic Church made available, about the history of this church.