Day of Prayers for Prisoners

Day of Prayers for Prisoners is a Polish Catholic holiday celebrated every year on 26 March, established at the Polish Episcopal Conference during the 347th Plenary Meeting of Episcopate (10-11 March 2009).

Jan Sikorski, and the Polish Prison Chaplain-General, Rev.

Paweł Wojtas (who was then vice-president of the International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care).

[1] On this day for many years, the Prison Brotherhood organized a pilgrimage of prisoners' representatives to the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa, the major Polish Marian sanctuary.

The idea behind establishing the Day of Prayers for Prisoners is a need to pray for all prisoners, but especially for those who disassociate themselves entirely from God, who do not see any point in conversion or have lost their faith in Divine Mercy.

Crucifixion of Jesus with the Penitent Thief and the impenitent thief (central image of the Bockstorfer Altar in the Cathedral of Konstanz , painted in 1524)