* 966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.

Bishop Christian asked the new Pope Honorius III for the consent to start another Crusade, however a first campaign in 1217 proved a failure and even the joint efforts by Duke Konrad with the Polish High Duke Leszek I the White and Duke Henry I the Bearded of Silesia in 122 / 23 only led to the reconquest of Chełmno Land but did not stop the Prussian invasions.

Unlike in many other Christian countries, St. Nicholas does not play a major role in Polish Christmas, but instead, is celebrated on his Saint feast day of December 6.

After a particularly sound defeat by Prussian forces in 1223, Polish forces in Chełmno, the seat of Christian of Oliva and Duchy of Masovia would go on the defensive.

The Christian army of the Polish duke Henry II the Pious of Silesia, supported by the feudal nobility, included Poles, Bavarian miners and military orders, was decisively defeated by the Mongols.

Through the adoption of Christianity Mieszko I included his Polish state in the community European western Latin rite Christian states.

This conjecture seems to be confirmed in the introduction of the first volume of the chronicles of Gallus Anonymus concerning the Pomeranians: Although often the leaders of the forces defeated by the Polish duke sought salvation in baptism, as soon as they regained their strength, they repudiated the Christian faith and started the war against Christians anew.

Two crossed swords also look like a Christian cross and the mixed symbolism has been used in military decorations, for instance in the Polish Order of the White Eagle ( before 1730 ) and the Cross of Independence.

The Polish People's Party (, abbreviated to PSL ( traditionally translated as Polish Peasants ' Party ), is a centrist, agrarian, and Christian democratic political party in Poland.

Critics argued that Stein was killed because she was Jewish by birth, rather than for her later Christian faith, and that, in the words of Daniel Polish, it seemed to " carry the tacit message encouraging conversionary activities " because " official discussion of the beatification seemed to make a point of conjoining Stein's Catholic faith with her death with ' fellow Jews ' in Auschwitz ".

The American Indian four winds teachings may also have Christian cross teachings linked to Nestorian Missons or visitors to North America, as well as Irish Church monks and / or a Polish / Dane Colony before Columbus in the present location of the Maritimes of Canada and Northeastern U. S. Source: National Christian Association: nationalchristianassociation. bravehost. com

The core of the Democratic Party is made up by the members of the Freedom Union ( Unia Wolności, UW ), which had so far been the most important Christian democratic group in the Polish political landscape.

The Belarusian Christian Democratic Union, founded in June 1991, was a continuation of the Belarusian Christian-Democratic Party, which was disbanded by the Polish authorities in western Belarus in the 1930s.

Her family called her Stasia, a common Polish diminutive of her Christian name, which later gave birth to the American version of her name, Stella.

The German author Christian Raitz von Frentz writes that after the First World War ended, the Polish government tried to reverse the systematic Germanization of the past decades

In 1762, he started his career as a page of Carl Christian Joseph of Saxony, Duke of Courland and a vassal of the Polish king.

Socinianism is a system of Christian doctrine named for Fausto Sozzini ( Latin: Faustus Socinus ), which was developed among the Polish Brethren in the Minor Reformed Church of Poland during the 15th and 16th centuries and embraced also by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania during the same period.

His father was Jewish ( of Russian and Polish origin ) and his mother was from a Christian background.

In 1996 the Frontline programme Shtetl broadcast ; it was about Polish Christian and Jewish relations.

When the western flank of the Mongols plundered Polish cities, a European alliance between the Poles, the Moravians, the Christian military orders of the Hospitallers, Teutonic Knights and the Templars assembled sufficient forces to halt, although briefly the Mongol advance at Legnica.

Three Polish Christmas wafers, depicting Christian scenes

The party advocates moderate economic interventionism, although less so than the right-wing League of Polish Families or centre-left Democratic Left Alliance, and the party adopts the social market economy rhetoric of western European Christian democratic parties.

The Polish National Catholic Church ( PNCC ) is a Christian church founded and based in the United States by Polish-Americans who were Roman Catholic.

* Atmosphere ( Polish band ), a Polish rock band

* Atmosphere ( Atmosphere album ), the debut album by Polish rock band, Atmosphere

From 2000 to 2007, he was a member of the platinum-record-winning Polish progressive rock band SBB.

* Riverside ( band ), a Polish progressive metal / rock band

Once, during a snowball fight at the family's Polish estate, Anastasia rolled a rock into a snowball and threw it at her older sister Tatiana, knocking her to the ground.

* Lombard ( band ), Polish rock band

* Czesław Niemen ( 1939 – 2004 ), Polish musician, composer and one of pioneers of progressive rock studied at a local music school

* Satellite ( Polish band ), Polish progressive rock band

* WC ( band ), a Polish punk rock band

SBB ( first known as Silesian Blues Band, later as Szukaj, Burz, Buduj – Polish for " Search, Break up, Build ") is a Polish progressive rock band formed in 1971 in Siemianowice, Upper Silesia by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Józef Skrzek.

Category: Polish alternative rock groups

Polish performers of shanties favor medium-sized groups, often singing in harmony, accompanying themselves on instruments, and presenting themselves similarly to the way a rock band would.

* Tan ( album ), a live album by the Polish rock band Kult

* The Polish punk rock band Anti Dread wrote the song " Roko na Sterydach " (" Rocco on Steroids ") about Siffredi.

Czesław Niemen (; February 16, 1939 – January 17, 2004 ) real name Czesław Juliusz Wydrzycki, was one of the most important and original Polish singer-songwriters and rock balladeers of the last quarter-century, singing mainly in Polish.

He made his debut in the early 1960s, singing Polish rock and soul music.

* Black River ( band ), a Polish stoner rock / heavy metal band

* TSA ( band ), a Polish heavy metal / hard rock band

* Exodus ( Polish band ), Polish symphonic rock band

Category: Polish rock music groups