Wadley Fleurime, 18, originally from Haiti, and Diane De Bernardo of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Windsor Terrace, tour the Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary July 25 in Wadowice, Poland, with other World Youth Day pilgrims from the Diocese of Brooklyn. The town of Wadowice is where St. John Paul II was born. (Photo: Catholic News Service, Bob Roller)

Pilgrims from St. Patrick’s, Bay Ridge, took a side trip to Ireland and Italy before heading to Poland for World Youth Day. They are seen here at Fontana del Tritone, Rome, Italy.

Maria Negrete of Brooklyn poses in front of a statue of St. John Paul II outside the Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Wadowice, Poland. (Photo: Catholic News Service, Bob Roller)

Father Sean Suckiel, Salvatore Tinervia and other Brooklyn pilgrims prepare for journey at Kennedy Airport, Queens.

Father Robert Adamo, pastor of St. Ephrem, Dyker Heights, prays near the site of gas chambers during a July 25 visit to the Birkenau Nazi concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland. (Photo: Catholic News Service, Bob Roller)

Brooklyn seminarians Sean Cintron, Brendon Harfmann, Willy Kingsley, Sangbin Lee and Przemyslaw Bak tour Warsaw prior to departing for Krakow, Poland.

Brooklyn priests, from left, Fathers Sean Suckiel, Josephjude Gannon, Felix Herrera, Jun Hee Lee, Christopher O’Connor, Ray Roden, Carlos Quijano, S.J., Carlos daSilva and Liju Augustine.

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