Celebrations of the 105th year of the Catholic University of Lublin

The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin will celebrate its 105th anniversary on 8 December this year. On this occasion, the university authorities have planned a number of events to duly celebrate this round jubilee.
Although the Catholic University of Lublin (then known as the University of Lublin) was founded on 27 July 1918 by a decision of the Bishops' Conference, it is customary to celebrate its anniversary every year on 8 December, the anniversary of the opening of the first academic year in 1918. Idzi Radziszewski, the founder and first Rector of the University, could have imagined that 105 years later the Catholic University of Lublin would be so vibrant and constantly developing?

On the occasion of its round 105th birthday, the university authorities have planned a series of accompanying events to properly celebrate this unique anniversary in the history of the Catholic University of Lublin. The celebrations will begin at 8.30 a.m. on the campus in Poczekajka, where the Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin, Rev. Prof. Mirosław Kalinowski, will ceremoniously cut a cake, which will be served to the students and staff of the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Natural and Technical Sciences. At 9.00 a.m., in the building of the KUL Institute of Biotechnology (room 008), a lecture entitled "The Mystery of Cancer Initiation: Lessons from the Bladder Cancer Model" will be given by world-renowned scientist Professor Bogdan Czerniak, MD, from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Another event to honour the university's 105th anniversary will be the ceremony of conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Catholic University of Lublin to Prof. Carl A. Anderson, which will take place at 11.00 a.m. at the Collegium Aegidianum (auditorium CTW-113).
At 2.30 p.m., the celebrations will begin on the main campus of the Catholic University of Lublin. The cake prepared for the occasion will be cut by the Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin, accompanied by the Vice-Rectors and the whole academic community. An additional attraction will be a concert prepared by the lecturers and students of musicology at KUL.
At 7 p.m. Revd Prof. Mirosław Kalinowski will preside over Holy Mass in the Catholic University Church, during which, together with the students and staff of the university, he will give thanks for another such fruitful year of the university's activity and ask for the blessing and protection of Providence for the years to come.

The last event planned on the occasion of the university's 105th birthday will be a concert by the Academic Choir of the Catholic University of Lublin, which will take place after the Holy Mass in the Academic Church at 8 p.m. An almost completely unknown piece of music will be performed then: "Magnificat" by Roger Calmel.