Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel
Riverside church at the site of a bishop's murder, with a crypt of celebrated Polish writers.
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This guide to the Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel in Kraków opens with King Bolesław the Bold striking down his own bishop, Stanisław, at the altar in 1079, after years of quiet conflict between the two men. You'll hear what drove a king to turn on the church's harshest weapon against him, and the disputed legend of what the guards did with the bishop's body afterward. The guide follows Stanisław's path to sainthood and the penitential royal procession that still walks down from Wawel Cathedral to this door every May.
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