Piłsudski Square is located in downtown Warsaw, Poland. It has been called successively Saxon Square (after Poland's Saxon kings' "Saxon Palace," destroyed in World War II, that used to stand adjacent to the square), Piłsudski Square (after Józef Piłsudski), Victory Square (in honor of the victory of Poland and her allies in World War II) and now is again called Piłsudski Square.
The Square has been the scene of many historic events. Pope John Paul II addressed throngs of his countrymen there in 1979 during his first visit to Poland following elevation to the papacy in 1978. In April 2005 two million people mourned his death there, together with Cardinal Józef Glemp (whom Pope John Paul II had appointed cardinal on February 2, 1983).
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