The Blessed Virgin Protects Karol Wojtyla

The 6th of August 1944, the feast of the Transfiguration, will be remembered at Krakow as Black Sunday: the Gestapo were combing the city, picking up young people to prevent a repeat of the Warsaw uprising. Archbishop Sapieha immediately summoned the members of the secret seminaries so as to hide them at his residence. (...) When he arrived, Malinski's first question was "Is Karol Wojtyla here?" Yes he was, although during the previous day's raid, the Gestapo had searched the first two floors of #10, Tyniecka. Karol remained behind a locked door in his basement flat, his heart pounding, praying for his deliverance. And the Germans left empty-handed.