Did he go to church everyday when he was an altar boy?
Marianna Popieluszko: Yes, in all weathers and seasons. He woke up at 5 a.m. everyday to go to church and walk four kilometres through the wood from Okopy to Suchowola. As an altar boy he never missed Mass, not even once. He never complained that he was tired. He never did: he was like that. By the way, how was Jerzy as a child? Marianna Popieluszko: He was a good boy. I never had to reproach him. He obeyed me whatever I asked him to do. It was clear from the childhood what he was like. For example, he loved people, he was attracted to his neighbours. An old woman lived next to us; she pastured her cows on her own everyday. He used to go to her for a chat. Even when, as a seminary student, he returned home, he always paid a visit to this old woman. On the other hand, I repeated to him: “The love of God and our neighbours is what leads us to Heaven.” In the showcase of the Memory Room dedicated to Father Jerzy at Suchowola there is a book he received as a prize bearing the following ded
