Not far from Krakow, the former capital of Poland, there is a mound called the Krakus Mound. It is not as large as the pyramid of Cheops, but from its top you can see a vast panorama of the city. It is not known when and how it was built, or what purpose it served. There are different archaeological opinions on the time of its construction, some say that it was built in the late 5th and early 6th century BC, others place the time of its construction in the 7th century AD. There is a legend connected with that mound about the former ruler of Poland, called then the country of Lechits, and that name was used much later, when the Eastern tribes invading Poland called that land Lechistan (in the 17th century the king of Poland Jan Sobieski, whose hussars defeated the Turkish army besieging Vienna in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, was called "the Lion of Lechistan").

In 1025, after the death of King Boleslaus the Brave, his son Mieszko was crowned king of Poland, and his wife Rachel of Lorraine was crowned queen (her father was the Rhine palatine Erenfried Ezzon, and her mother Matilda, daughter of the Roman Emperor Otto II and the Empress Theophano and sister of Emperor Otto III). Mieszko's marriage with Racheza provided a certain guarantee of good political relations with the Empire, which were necessary both for Poland and its western neighbours, as every now and then there were fights between the eastern and western neighbours.

There is Monte Casino Street in Warsaw, a small street, which sounds Italian. And rightly so, because it takes its name from Italy. In Italy, on a hill called Monte Casino, there is a seat of the oldest Catholic order founded in 529 by St. Benedict of Nursia. Benedictines also have their history in Poland, where already the first Piasts established Benedictine monasteries. The first known Benedictine monk in Poland was St. Adalbert. He was a Benedictine monk who came to Poland, already a Christian country at that time, from where he went on a missionary expedition to Prussia, where he was killed and from where his body was ransomed by Mieszko I's son, Boleslaw, later the king of Poland known as Boleslaw the Brave.

Andrzej Bobola, coat of arms Leliwa, took not the path of knight like other representatives of this family (it is said that the last Bobola, Sigismund Bobola, died in the battle of Vienna), but the path of peace, without shedding blood, the path of clergyman. At the age of 15 he began his studies in a Jesuit college and then studied at Vilnius University. After being ordained to the priesthood in 1622 he performed various functions of the clergy: rector of churches, preacher, missionary. He also wrote the text of the famous Lvov vows made later by King Jan Kazimierz in 1656, in which the King of Poland entrusted the Republic of Poland to the care of the Mother of God, whom he called Queen of the Polish Crown, and paid respect to the bravery of peasants and townsmen, promising to intercede for the improvement of their lot.