„With profound veneration I also embrace the threshold of the house of God, the parish church of Wadowice, and in it the Baptistery, in which I was joined to Christ and received into the community of his Church. In this church I made my first Confession and received my First Holy Communion. Here I was an altar boy. Here I gave thanks to God for the gift of the priesthood (...). God alone, the giver of every grace, knows what goodness and what manifold graces I received from this church and from this parish community.”

— St. John Paul II, 16 June 1999, Wadowice